Sat Dec 21 02:36:59 CET 2024

The government of Helmut Kohl is credited with bringing Germany together.  But did you know the CDU also
plundered the West Germans Pension fund in order to "upgrade"  the east?

Next he spun off Telekom (DTAG) from the Bundespost that was paid for entirely by West German tax payers.

And here is the jammer.  DTAG most likely got all the last mile copper for free.  This is the same connection
that gave you your phone back in the days and gives you 250 Mbit/s DSL today.  All paid for by then german
tax payers, who today aren't getting much money in terms of a pension.

It may be interesting you for those that had any part in funding Bundespost back in the day that Telekom may
owe you the 14 odd EUR/mo they demand from their competition who wants to offer DSL in Germany.  Yes.  They
could be made to pay your pension (or at least boost it, it was your money in the first place anyhow).

We're talking billions of EUR.

Any technology after DSL isn't Bundespost, btw.  This includes LTE and Fibre Optics (FTTH).

-pjp

(I ranted about this some months ago in my kitchen/apartment)