Broadband: the EU yesterday published latest numbers, saying that Europe has more broadband users than any other part fo the world. within europe, germany is on 9th place, with 75% of households having internet access, but just 37% of these are broadband.
europe-wide, 56% of people have internet, of these 80% are broadband, says the EU.
There are also more users of cellphones in europe than there is european population.
In this field, the EU claims global numerical leadership, too.
http://ec.europa.eu/deutschland/pres...es/8660_de.htm
I must say the lag in Germany concerning broadband maybe is because of absolutely bad and lousy services of private companies. I have had 5 internet providers so far, with 4 of them I ended in months of war, twice they stopped and gave in just before me pulling them to the courts. IMO, the IT branch is a very criminalised business, overpriced, but underserviced, and being extremely treacherous towards customers, using a maximum of deception, hiding, ignoring you, and blatant liying in order to wear your resistance down in case of conflict like in a war of attrition. Strange, but the much criticised pink giant, Telekom, is the company I now ended up with. Two technical problems in the line that I reported to them were solved within 90 minutes, they even called back to say it got sorted out, no telefon robots, no getting ignored, and competent servicemen being the first at the phone instead of incompetent desinterested call-centre-secretaries, and getting handed arund in circles. They are more expensive (I could have my telephone and broadband flat for half the money) , yes -
but maybe better quality in service has it's price...!? Employees must get payed, you know. much of the cheaper rivals run bad business policies and employ personnell that is not up to the job. And that I say after many and long very bad experiences with them. - You will never hear me saying one positive word about private IT companies in Germany. I hate them and wish them plague and cholera.