Talk:Germany/@comment-6185206-20130129143312

I am a resident. Germany has 4 mobile networks, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, O2, E-Plus (in descending order by number of users). Everyone else is a reseller and their speed will be that of the network used.

In general, coverage is excellent. You should have at least GPRS connection. and UMTS/HSDPA is also not difficult to find, even outside of metropolitan areas. LTE is just starting and expensive. Please note that LTE is not as universal as UMTS/HSDPA. Your device may fall back to UMTS if its frequency is not compatible. Most notably, that's the case with the Ipad 4 which uses the same hardware world-wide, but it's US frequencies do not work over here. Consequently German Apple stores do not sell it as LTE-enabled.

I have been using the E-Plus network for the last two years with increasing unhappiness as data transfers became slower and slower. I heard that O2 has similar problems. Switching to Deutsche Telekom a few weeks ago put the smile back on my face. Vodafone's reputation is equally good. You can find a current ranking here (in German, but I think you get the idea) http://www.umtsspeedtest.de/