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California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network (www.lightreading.com)
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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Germany: Houses still getting copper internet cables this year (and probably the next 10 too).

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks, Kohl.

    Literally. For those who don't know it was Helmut Kohl (chancellor during the reunification) who stopped a 30-year project to lay fiber throughout Germany to instead favour copper wires to help his old pal Leo Kirch build up a private TV network to rival the mostly left leaning public broadcast. And I thought one of his family members owned a copper plant or so but I wasn't able to find an article about that.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Same in Australia. The libnats (right-leaning) broke the fibre-optic rollout by claiming it would be too expensive, and replaced it in non-metro areas with wireless, claiming 25Mbps was adequate. They didn't mention that slow internet would benefit the Murdoch -owned Foxtel satellite services. And here we are now with internet services worse than some poorer countries.

    I chose Starlink because I will never get fibre optic, my only broadband option is geo-synch satellite, with speed and data caps, and 600ms latency.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    you can't expect more from T aka DT... Here in budapest i could only get copper cable T net, if the romanian (Digi) wouldn't give us optical cable (however orban already chased them away, so i expect worse, since orban's firm which bought their network, doubled the subscription price in 1 year).

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