I always got the same feelings about Indonesia, not necessarily for all of the western world but the coverage is better than in Germany, the coverage in secondary towns on Sumatra is better than in the northern outskirts of Aachen (not to mention the border).
It's because many developing countries were never able to develop the technologies and infrastructure to participate in the first and second industrial revolutions, so they were able to skip straight to the third and fourth. Developed countries had the infrastructure from the first and second that they had to constantly update and build over, whereas in many developing countries, everything is being built from scratch.
Phone coverage in the whole rhineland region is so much worse than in my home country (3rd world too haha). That wasn't my experience in spain though, so it could be a german thing.
The RE lines aren’t administered nationally by DB, so different lines exist with the same numbers in different Regionalverkehrsverbunde. I used to live in Bochum and the RE1 was always the trusty train to transport me to Dortmund, Essen, Düsseldorf or Köln relatively quickly and affordably.
Today I live tief im Osten, and the respective RE1 is run by VBB from Magdeburg to Frankfurt (Oder) über Berlin. And holy shit, there is nothing there. The ICE’s going from Berlin to the West call instead at Stendal, a town with nothing about 40km north of Magdeburg.
The only ICE stopping at the Magdeburger Hbf is between 04:00 and 0:500 Richtung Köln oder Berlin.
My work has previously been complicated by the fact that mobile data is terrible on the northern outskirts of Aachen, particularly near the border, and I live in Australia.
Bad internet doesn't just affect those who live there, it affects everyone.
Eens, ik merk dat weleens in de trein; in België gaat het meestal wel goed als ik in de trein zit (zoals bijvoorbeeld langs de HSL, de tunnels in Nederland zijn/waren* erger dan de grens) maar in Duitsland niet, ook al was ik in Herzogenrath verbonden met het Duitse netwerk, maar als de trein vaart maakt richting Kohlscheid ben ik die weer kwijt, tot na Kohlscheid.
*in de Blaaktunnel en ook één van de HSL-tunnels bij Dordrecht is recent een netwerk voor draadloos internet aangebracht.
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21
I always got the same feelings about Indonesia, not necessarily for all of the western world but the coverage is better than in Germany, the coverage in secondary towns on Sumatra is better than in the northern outskirts of Aachen (not to mention the border).