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joe-re t1_iyak19k wrote

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That's the way it was handled in the beginning in Germany. Telekom, a state owned company, had a monopoly on the infrastructure. It was privatized in 1996, but the state owned most of it.

Internet access and speed severely lagged behind other countries, but costs were higher. This is still the case.

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irkli OP t1_iyau1bd wrote

Bummer. Recalling experience back in the BBS modem days, yeah, a lot of European telcos were quite retrograde. So I can see how that would happen.

"Someone" must have done a survey of approaches to this. Maybe eff would know.

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