So at CEBIT I attended a keynote by the mayor of a small south German town, and I can't stop thinking about it. This'll be long

See, most of Germany outside the large cities has real shitty Internet. The gov't has started an initiative to fix that, and the town got some amount of funding. But, while the large ISPs agreed to lay down some optical fiber, they kept missing deadlines and pushing back the schedule and (as the mayor put it) the local businesses would not stop calling him to complain.