Can confirm. Example: Was on a work trip in Tibilisi, Georgia last year, and 5G coverage everywhere, fiber everywhere, even the smoothie bar next to our site had wireless and usb chargers embedded in their countertops. Free (albeit somewhat clogged) wifi throughout the city. Younger, or far more flexible demographics and mental flexibility and willingness to use technology. No letterbox to be seen as nearly every communication is digital. Getting a SIM takes 5 minutes with digital verification in the shop, even for a German (looking at you, Postident!).
Article does not cover the why question, only partly how it came to that situation: A government stuck in the past.
I'd like to add that laying cable/fiber costs money, so the providers like to milk that invest as long as possible. So while we have ftc here, there's still multiple dslams on that curb distributing the net though copper to the homes. Some even still set up with adsl line cards (15 mbps instead of 250), although newly built. Some efforts are being made to provide fth, but these are hard to distribute in 1950 era buildings. These costs are mainly not recoverable by rent, need a heavy planning effort and all tenants in that building would be bound to one provider for one or two years, which most of mine do strictly not want. Not only the government is stuck in the past here.
When I asked my provider if I could have fiber and dsl as fallback and for testing those few who understood the question just laughed.
Was heisst schuldig? Wir wissen dass die aktuelle Regierung von Georgien prorussisch ist, und damit ist das Land vermutlich kein sicheres Herkunfstland fuer diesen Mann und seine Familie, egal wie oft wir das pauschal definieren.
Ich als Vermieter haette kein Problem das ein, zwei Monate zu stunden. Was soll passieren? Kriegst die Kohle doch eh irgendwann vom Amt.
Is halt nicht immer machbar, Vermieter spielen schon so konstant Bank.
and lawyer, if I remember correctly.