said by scaredpoet:The penetration rate is low because Verizon won't expand.
You misunderstand "penetration rate", it's not a total number that would be fixed by further rollouts, but the percentage of homes passed that become long term (not just promo seeking)full rate customers, because that is what would repay the cost of the FioS over the next 40 years.
If the take rate (another way to express penetration) is below 40% in the areas the carefully selected to build first, other areas are likely to be worse, so expanding makes the total number worse.
people shouldn't get too happy about huge fines which will eventually be repaid by customers.