said by Linklist:And fiber's future is in the backbone(where the US is already very strong and getting stronger) and not in the last mile - that last mile will be wireless.
As some who knows way more about this than the original poster, I can tell you that is false. Fiber depth into the middle mile is slowly increasing. I've seen the presentations and attended a number of technical discussions on this topic from within two of large MSOs operating in the US. Once node sizes fall below a certain point, the cost of the electronics and equipment exceeds just running fiber right out of the node directly to the consumer.
