German technology is symbol of reliability, quality,
innovation and high technology. We analyze the Broadband Society in Germany in collaboration with Natalie Barresi, from UPF. As it refers to high-speed internet broadband,
Germany is certainly at the head of the group, right? Wrong, actually Germany scrambles to merely cover large cities with broadband and has consistently missed
the dates agreed by both government and telecom companies to build a digital
infrastructure that matches their European neighbors’.
According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation
and Development, a research center composed of the world’s most developed
economies, Germany’s adoption of fiber-optic cable stands at just 1.8 percent
of Internet users, putting it fifth from the bottom in the list of the OECD’s
35 members. In contrast both Japan and South Korea have more than 70 percent of
subscribers on super-fast fiber-optic cable.