On the Telecommunications Law in Germany 

The petitioner calls for the provisions of the German Telecommunications Law regarding basic services to be updated and for the network to be improved, pointing out that, in the age of globalisation, analog connections and a 56-kbit/s internet bandwidth cannot be the standard. However, this is the bandwidth currently being offered by network providers, who alone decide what constitutes a functional internet connection. In fact, it falls short of current online capacity requirements. Moreover, the Deutsche Telekom monopoly should be ended and other operators with significant market power called upon to provide network connections.