said by mix:Or is it assumed that you can just upgrade the same network to higher speeds sometime in the future? I mean, a new fiber network built today for an entire country... seems like you would want to overbuild and future proof it as much as possible...
Bulk of the cost is for construction costs of deploying the actual fiber. Change the equipment around a bit on the ends (maybe just one end) and you can do 1gb. Cant say the same thing about copper. They are going the future proof route.
