Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill

Post by pm3003 » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 5:35 PM UTC

nolite wrote: post #13

Kequc wrote: post #7

Germany is no longer going to be one of the only places on Earth which punishes Wifi providers for what users do while on their network? I may actually be able to choose between more than 3 different cafes' that offer Wifi from my half of the city? (One fewer than a month ago.) Wow. That would actually be fantastic thanks for getting on that.

France does as well

Post by return0 » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 5:37 PM UTC

ajmurmann wrote: post #11

Someone1234 wrote: post #5

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> Merkel was in bed with some green guy named Benjamin. What a misguided reference. Last I checked no Euro note or coin has anyone called "Benjamin" on them, in fact they don't have people on them at all, they're places. Americans really need to stop using the Benjamin/Jackson/etc thing online to describe money, it isn't a clever reference even in relation to US currency and just comes across as ignorant when used to…

I actually misunderstood the entire statement because of this. I thought this was happening because of a politician from the green party and was going over green party politicians to figure out whom could possible me meant. I live in the US since 8 years and still misunderstood it.

Post by eis » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 5:40 PM UTC

pm3003 wrote: post #15

denzil_correa wrote: post #12

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> From the "WLAN" café Is there any other country which calls WiFi as WLAN? I have traveled to many countries in Europe but I assume Germany, France and Luxembourg seem to be the only countries that use this term.

Never heard it in France (in France you usually use the word LAN or WLAN for local networks, as it should be).

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

pm3003 wrote: post #15

denzil_correa wrote: post #12

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> From the "WLAN" café Is there any other country which calls WiFi as WLAN? I have traveled to many countries in Europe but I assume Germany, France and Luxembourg seem to be the only countries that use this term.

Never heard it in France (in France you usually use the word LAN or WLAN for local networks, as it should be).

Post by neuronic » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

wifi_germany wrote: post #26

This bill is actually heavily criticized in germany, for example by the Freifunk initiative: http://freifunkstattangst.de/2015/06/16/neuer-tmg-entwurf-zu... (german) The bill requires network operators to make "reasonable effort to secure the network against unauthorized access" and to "allow access only to users that have agreed not to violate the law during their use" of the network. The bill also takes service pro…