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At least you can get speedy connections. Here in the NL offers still start at 40/5-type connections, and ISP have you pay premiums to get 300/500 Mbit. If you're lucky, you can sell your first born for 1Gbit.

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Offers starting at 40/5 is already good, in Berlin offers currently start at 10/2 with 100GB volume limit for 25€/Month with 2 year minimum contract duration.

(Through to be fair you get 50/10 for 30€/Month without limit.)

Pff, I pay €40/month for my 1Gbit/s FttH Tweak connection. You’re painting a very bleak picture, but NL internet isn’t that bad unless you only have an old ADSL-style phone line, and that is rare nowadays.

Because those small affordable ISPs are only available in tiny service areas. Most people still must choose between DSL and cable (horribly expensive), and fibre from KPN if they're lucky.

Offering connections in the Mbit range anno 2021 _is_ bleak, compared to some countries.

DSL is indeed a joke, but Ziggo cable and KPN fiber together have near universal availability these days. Cable isn't that much more expensive than a dedicated fiber but tends to come bundled with TV and phone only.

This paints a pretty good picture: https://tweakers.net/ext/i/2003127256.jpeg, which comes from this article in 2019: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/158414/aanleg-van-glasvezel-naar...

It isn't everywhere in Switzerland. I just lucked in to moving to a town that happens to have a lot of fibre underneath.

Plenty of places here are stuck on some form of broadband.

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