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Germany's problem is not building stuff but corruption.
Our street/sidewalk was opened up f****ing 7 times in the last 3 years for fiber-optic cables. Because if there is money to be spend they will find a way to give it to some buddies for putting the 2nd, 3rd or 10th set of redundant cables into the ground.
Oh, and guess what is not available here... a fiber connection, because actually connecting those cables is not where they can make money. And if they somehow manage this some day... I'll pay insane prices compared to any other country.
Which is both again caused by corruption, a.k.a. a few big companies and their well-paid lobbyists working hard to be the only option.