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My friends in Munich or the Ruhr region don't seem to know of any "massive" G.fast availability... which in any way is very late to the party. But I stand corrected.

I didn't know about network equipment from other manufacturers, not sure why we're stuck with Huawei here, but it's a dead end. The plan is to migrate as many G.fast subscribers as possible to FTTH in the next 5 years, and eventually to mmWave 5G in a few corner cases.

When I still lived in Munich, I had M-Net since pretty much their inception. ADSL first, later fiber. It was always great, and on the very few occasions that I had problems, I usually directly got a technician on the line who knew exactly what they were doing, instead of a few layers of help desk peoples fielding calls.

Zyxel and Fast Networks are also good on the ISP side (Not sure Fast Networks is still a thing - website seems to be down - but I run one of their DSLAMs and am happy with it)