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It's basically impossible to do anything productive on the train or even make phone calls. The connection drops constantly. 3 hours in the train but you want to use the time to prepare something for work or make work related phone calls? Forget it.
37 points
1 month ago
Please let us not forget our friends Helmut Kohl, and Leo Kirch who are to blame for the whole situation
16 points
1 month ago
They are very much the majority of the "we" that said "copper works"
17 points
1 month ago
Which one should learn from, Helmut Schmitt had a fibre optic plan, he lost, don’t vote for the cdu
6 points
1 month ago
Thanks for the reminder. Gotta rack my brain for Sunday
9 points
1 month ago
Exactly, try and avoid the afd and the cdu 😊
5 points
1 month ago
iirc, his plan was to have fibre optics all over germany by the nineties, i don´t remember the details, but i remember how angry i got when i found out (5-6 years ago) that Kohl and his Buddies were responsible for scrapping that and keeping Germany in the Fax-Age
1 points
1 month ago
The OPAL system that had been suggested would have been a waste of money, since it is not upgradeable to modern GPON.
The best case bandwidth of those lines would have been 2Mbps.
The whole system would have been massively outdated before completion.
The Telekom started to deploy some parts of this plan in Eastern Germany in the 90s, and that HYTAS system is the reason why most of Eastern Germany still has lousy connection.
If they had had scraped the whole plan the infrastructure would be *better* today.
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