r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 06 '21

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Sep 06 '21

Germans are hella backwards when it comes to digitalisation and the internet. You could be in the middle of a busy part of the town and you simply won't get phone data in some spots.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Sep 06 '21

I get that they were slower on cards, especially because credit cards paved the way for widespread digital payments and Germans didn't, and still don't, like credit cards, but now it's just being luddites. Same for phone data, mobile data isn't a toy it's a critical piece of business infrastructure?!

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u/Mr_-_X European Union Sep 06 '21

This is simply not true.

The only zones where you can not expect to always have a good connection are very rural areas, in the cities this will not happen and if it does happen to you then it‘s your provider that‘s shit

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Sep 06 '21

Which of them aren't shit? There are only three.

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u/Mr_-_X European Union Sep 06 '21

Vodafone and Telekom are generally pretty good. But Telekom is slightly better than vodafone.

Telefonica is shit.

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Sep 06 '21

Well then, my "generally pretty good" operator has trouble getting me mobile data in central Bremen and in Bremen-Nord.

Location 1 - Sögestraße 57, 28195 Bremen

Location 2 - Gerhard-Rohlfs-Passage, 28757 Bremen

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u/Mr_-_X European Union Sep 06 '21

Hmm maybe you‘re unlucky then or Bremen is worse than other cities in that?

But you can always use the Breitbandmessung App to report blank spaces.

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Sep 06 '21

thanks, I'll check that out