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First of all, I moved to Berlin 9 months ago and in general I'm pretty happy with the service uptime and promised speed etc.

BUT the activation time of your connection is something unacceptable in Germany. Four weeks seems to be the normal case for a landline connection to be up and running. FOUR WEEKS, are you kidding me?

And the same problem is ahead of you if you're moving to another flat.

As I did. I moved one month ago. And I didn't know the new address until 1 week before the end of month. As soon as I knew about it I went to the ISP & asked them to make the switch to the new address.

I had to pay extra (which was ok) and WAIT ANOTHER FOUR WEEKS (which was not ok at all).

So in effect I was without internet for 3 weeks while paying the connection to my old address at the same time.

Someone was saying that here the bottleneck is on Telekom's end. And maybe so? The guy who eventually came after 4 weeks was from Telekom - he basically came around for max 10 minutes (probably 5) and made some magic tricks and voilà - internet working.

EDIT: Wild guess #1: the problem is just too few people at Telekom.

Wild guess #2: If Telekom would offer a service that you pay 100EUR extra to get the connection in two days, they 1) could do it, 2) have loads of customers wanting that service and 3) give jobs to more people and 4) have more money in the pocket

Ok. So I got an answer from one of the law firms I contacted.

They charge $2,500 dollars to:

- Delaware Corp. - 1 yr. registered agent - 1 yr. virtual office - EIN for company - all paperwork - checking account with Visa card

Ok, $2,500.00... not sure if this is a reasonable price ticket.

I now found out that I do can get an "International EIN" through services such as Incorporate / Bizfilings along with the business formation process.

After all legal paperwork the costs are at least $1,000.00 less than the first proposal of the lawyer.

But without the business bank account up and running.

So the question remains but with more hope in the air:

With an appropriate business and (International) EIN code, can I open a business bank account online to any bank?

I already contacted a few banks but haven't heard back yet...

Ok, thanks for the answer. I had already consulted from one law office but haven't heard back yet.

The problem seems to be the EIN code.

According to this Law Office Samuel Anders one option (and apparently in my case the only one if I want to do this remotely) is to buy an existing company that already has an EIN number set.

I now contacted Mr. Anders, and principally asked about the costs.

I'll continue asking from other places too. Will be posting here the answers I get in case there are others in a similar situation.