900mbps symmetric, $25/month fiber. The fiber run was subsidized/possibly entirely funded by EU money.
> EU support to rural revitalisation through broadband roll-out and smart solutions
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-support-rur...
You could have the wire be owned by a utility and let companies compete with services?
Can't justify the 5gbps, though - it's like $170/mo + taxes.
Oh...
Should be easy to get fiber no? Turns out they want a couple thousand dollars from me to run fiber up my street. Coax it is!
fiber loop from cogent or centurylink was $15,000. even though they have a loop a half mile up the road. Dark fiber is probably cheaper, but i cannot remember the pricing to run my own fiber via some legit company. i had DSL (6mbit), switched to my own CPE with cellular wireless, then their CPE after they stopped selling the SIM plan i was using, then starlink after they stopped selling their fixed wireless for some newer one that isn't supported anywhere but metro areas.
There's a tree interfering with satellites at my location, and it's still 20x faster and better than anything before; except my own CPE solution, starlink is only 2x as good as that.
Turns out regulation can be a good thing - first of all, OpenReach (the infrastructure part of BT that was split up post privatisation) are regulated in how much they can charge other providers for last mile FTTP/C[1]
But then there's also Access to Infrastructure regulation[2], which means duct and pole access isn't up to the telco's (and after all, existing infra was publicly funded, and new infra is often paid for by housing developers). This means I have 2 providers of FTTP to my property - CityFibre and OpenReach (and a third offering DOCSIS cable in Virgin Media).
These combined have led to a thriving market with genuine competition. Whilst most ISP's use the two providers with the most footprint (OpenReach and CityFibre) they compete on things like technical chops (AAISP), Price (the PlusNets of the world) and a mix of the two (Zen).
Regulation, when well designed, leads to more competitive markets.
[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infra... [2] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/700/contents
A US telco would pop the champagne and then plan how best to screw their customers, safe in the knowledge that they have few competitors after they got local governments to ban municipal broadband.
It's some small company I never heard of before, back when I lived there Verizon got a ton of government money to do this and just never did, everyone was pissed about that.
That's why I'm so surprised they have fiber all of a sudden.
I always knew they had Syracuse and Rochester as major FIOS markets, but I was blown away to see the trucks all the way this far north and on my very road. Last I’d known they’d said they had stopped all buildout. Next thing I know, they pick back up their pace, then pick up the homework they let Frontier finish for them with the Frontier FIOS buildout, too.
I am currently in Poland, the very SW corner. Close enough to get both German and Czech radio in the car.
Which self own? Besides the one making your industry dependent on energy from your military opponent? Besides the one putting all your eggs in selling diesel engines when China and the US were betting on computer driven battery powered EVs? Besides the one where you open your borders to unvetted illegal immigrants leading to a rise in crime, terror attacks and right wing extremism all over Europe?
Because I lost track.
Yeah, that too I suppose. How could Schroeder have known? :/
In Switzerland it's very unlikely you find a mountain or road without 4g
https://www.heise.de/en/news/EU-digitization-report-Fiber-op...
"Today passengers enjoy at least 200 Mbit/s on 99 per cent of the 7 800 kilometres of main lines and even 300 Mbit/s or more on 95 per cent. Secondary lines also saw a transformation. Coverage of 100 Mbit/s rose from under 83 per cent to over 96 per cent in just three years."
However:
"Yet coverage is only half the story. Mobile signals must penetrate each carriage’s interior if passengers are to make calls or stream without interruption. Many modern trains are fitted with factory-installed windows engineered for signal permeability."
And of course many train's aren't fitted with windows like that (and operators are trying to retrofit them with microcells or in other ways).
https://www.connectivity.technology/2025/05/seamless-5g-conn...
And then there's the millions of boomers around whose only device is a smartphone and they never exceed the 10 or 20 or 30 GB they get on a mobile contract that's less than any DSL or fiber contract. Good luck selling them 900 Mbit symmetric links.
In fact I'm sure there must be hundreds of thousands who still pay for DSL that's essentially unused because their phone lost the Wifi credentials and there's no grandkid around to notice it. Their house will be upgraded to fiber when it gets resold because it ticks a box for the real estate agent.
We get 250 Mbit into our house and our house has Ethernet cables going through the walls to different floors but the cables are all limited 100 Mbit and it is tilting me of the face of the planet... :(
Replacing them isn't much of an option, just maybe running other cables around the walls, which isn't the nicest option when the existing cables are all nicely not visible.
How do you explain to a caveman that a living in a house is nicer than living in a cave?
>Why bother spending money or time making changes to my home's critical infrastructure. I doubt I'm the only one.
You don't have to pay, In Eastern Europe telcos pay themselves to wire fiber to your door in hopes you'll sign up with them. It's something you don't have in Germany, it's called free market competition. The German mind just can't comprehend having competitive companies that serve the consumers and not sclerotic state supported monopolies that only support the shareholders by robbing the consumers. Why are you guys like this?
>And then there's the millions of boomers
Of course, the way to move forward technologically is to cater tech to boomers habits. That's why Germany is a SW innovation powerhouse.
It's wired, I just have to sign up. But 1000 Mbit is more expensive than the 100 Mbit I have now. I just don't see the point. If that makes me caveman, so be it. Work on your manners.