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Mostly policy. Spain deployed a lot of fiber in the las 10 years that we've got little towns with multiple symmetric 600mbps offerings. If it can be done in Spain, it can be done in Germany.


+1 on Spanish internet, there seems to be fast (100Mbps+) internet available pretty much everywhere.

EU-wide, the official goal (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/broadband-euro...) is to have 100Mbps available to every EU household by 2025, with 1Gbps & 5G in all major cities.


My father lives in Mallorca and he has fiber with 400Mbps I believe.




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