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    Congrats to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia for making the cut

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        Last I remember, the Baltic states have better internet than most of Europe and the US.

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          Yo, german bro here. When I go by train from my village Willich to fucking Düsseldorf I lose connection 2 times, going 10 kilometers into the state capital.

          My friend in Wesel can’t reliably call his clients by car cause it’s just a connectivity minefield around there.

          Send help

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            Germany is so far behind with wifi coverage, it’s insane. Fiber is also rare outside of the hotspots. I volunteered in a refugee center once and an ongoing joke among them was how war-torn Syria had better internet connection than Germany lol

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                Old farts in charge don’t care about it. Merkel has promised full net coverage a couple times but oh well. It’s definitely better than it was before, but there are still lots of areas where there is work to be done. As our saying goes: Deutschlands Mühlen mahlen langsam. (Germany’s mills grind slowly)

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          Used to have. Now it’s just better than the US and UK lol

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              Yes, Germany might be the only western country worse than Australia

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                We don’t talk about German internet, just like we don’t talk about Belgian… anything

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                  Tell me about belgian fishing, going to live in Trier right beneath the border and german fishing laws a catastrophic so I will practice catch and release in Belgium!

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      Cyprus too. The EU’s farthest eastern outpost. 100km from Beirut, Lebanon.