Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Problem: You still have to be a customer of the company with the world’s worst rated customer service.

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• 30p87@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funnily enough, coaxial is still the main standard in Germany. And we got Gigabit through it for years lol

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weird, in Sweden they have started (last 10 years maybe) to roll out fiber like crazy.

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    • 30p87@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, but in 1982 Helmut Kohl, an ex chancellor of Germany, decided we should invest much more in coax/cable for TV instead of fiber optic, basically canceling the plan for building out fiber that was developed a year earlier already. The last 16 years (or rather, 16 years long two years ago), the pretty conservative CDU was the main party in Germany, so nothing developed in that critical time. Because there’s little to no regulations for ISPs, there’s not only eg. 20 GB 5G for 40€/month, with basically max. LTE at hotspot points and E everywhere else, it’s wholly the ISPs responsibility to lay out cables where and when they want. So as many smaller cities or villages are probably farther away from other civilizations and have less people, there’s less money to gain, so fuck 'em/us, right?

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