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One analogy was reminiscent of the extreme exhaustion after the Spanish flu, another of the Roaring Twenties that followed the last great pandemic.
In some analyzes, Germany had lost ground, in others it was extremely well off.
A prognosis that I can check here in the shutdown comes from the Brandenburg Glass Fiber 2020 development concept. It was suggested by the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics, is eight years old and begins like this: »Germany is at the bottom of the international comparison to extensive fiber-optic broadband access.
Countries like South Korea, Japan, but also the USA already have highly developed broadband networks compared to Germany.
Among the federal states, the state of Brandenburg takes last place in terms of the number of broadband connections per 100 households. "
This is how Christmas and disaster films begin.
You see the earth like a cosmonaut, then a zoom: Europe, Germany, Brandenburg.
A journey into the heart of darkness.
If the camera got a little closer now, eight years after the appearance of the large fiber-optic study, it would see two people standing on the edge of a bungalow fiddling with a folding rule in the sleet.
This is my wife and me.
We are currently determining the distance to the property line in order to be able to identify the entry point for the telecommunications line.
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