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Title: ISP Deceived Customers About Fiber Internet, German Court Finds

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/2138...

The German Koblenz Regional Court has banned the internet service provider
1&1 from marketing its fiber-to-the-curb service as fiber-optic DSL. The
court found that the company misled customers because its network uses copper
cables for the final stage of connections, sometimes extending up to a mile
from the distribution box to subscribers' homes. Customers who visited the
ISP's website and checked connection availability received a notification
stating that a "1&1 fiber optic DSL connection" was available, even
though fiber optic cables terminate at street-level distribution boxes or
building service rooms. The company pairs the copper lines with vectoring
technology to boost DSL speeds to 100 megabits per second. The Federation of
German Consumer Organizations filed the lawsuit. Ramona Pop, the
organization's chairperson, said that anyone who promises fiber optics but
delivers only DSL is deceiving customers.

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