Different languages we fight with Different Things thats fine let me also think up for Freedom Freedom of speech and freedom of press. Giving freedom of voice global news that matters d. W. Made for mines. Germany maybe europes industrial things are quite different in the Digital Space in terms of infrastructure the country is behind most of its european pairs will look at how the government and in industry plans to change that. And consider the lobster fisherman in the u. S. State of maine are suffering from trumps trade war canadian colleagues snap up the market share. This is t. W. Business. Welcome germanys Digital Infrastructure continues to live behind other
european countries today politicians and lobbyists will be discussing how they can go about improving its industries summers here in berlin whats the current reality on the ground in europes leading economy lets have a closer look well thats far from World Class 1st Coverage of high Speed Internet is still very patchy studies
you re driving down the country s famous also bon motorways at high speeds preferably you ll find that the podcast you streaming on spotify just stops now let s have a closer look at this with my colleague rob ward s who is looked into this story a bit more detail why is germany struggling so much with this problem well in terms of the internet there are various factors but one of them is good old fashioned german bureaucracy. is there for example for mobile internet there is a great deal of regulation that means that if you want to have a new master example it can take up to 2 years so if you want to improve the signal to an area you start on a long road that can take a while whereas you know it can take less than 6 months in other countries there s an argument that there s also a lack of competition among mobile providers there are just 3 main providers here