podcast you streaming on spotify just stops now let's have a closer look at this with my colleague rob ward's who is looked into this story a bit more detail why is germany struggling so much with this problem well in terms of the internet there are various factors but one of them is good old fashioned german bureaucracy is there for example for mobile internet there is a great deal of regulation that means that if you want to have a new master example it can take up to 2 years if you want to improve the signal to an area you start on a long road that can take a while whereas you know it can take less than 6 months in other countries there's an argument that there's also a lack of competition among mobile providers there are just 3 main providers here in germany that less than a lot of germany's competitors and there's a feeling that there's perhaps a lack of the competition that's required to drive up standards because the cartel than if it's only only 3 well i absolutely or that of the fact is that there are not enough of them pushing each other to cut costs and to try and improve the servi