It has. I have 100mb/s in Berlin. Seems that his street is not connected well, or he lives too far away from the distribution node, there is also 1gb/s cable in some streets.
I had better connectivity to Freifunk via their churchtower hub in Lausitzer Platz than I did to the actual internet.
You'd think something that central would be better connected, especially directly along the U1. Oh well.