said by Skippy25:It cracks me up how some people come here claiming fiber is so evil and just can't be done because it cost money.
I haven't seen ANYONE claim fiber is evil, or undesirable. No one here is anti-fiber or would turn it away if offered at a low enough price.
However quite a few of us believe that you will have a very difficult time convincing the Telco it is as affordable to build a ubiquitous fiber network as you say.
Unlike google the don't get a free pass on RoW and pole fees power and Rackspace and liability etc.etc.
And the also don't get to say we will only upgrade your neighborhood IF a high percentage sign up in advance and then only on our schedule, and we'll also skip your neighborhood or even city if it looks too hard or wants too many common things like pole replacement or a say in box placement.
As I explained before, keeping those "stock Jockey's" happy is their source of capital, and this would take a lot of it.
Verizon tried to do it on the Telco side , lost most of their territory over it, and still can't finish the very limited space they kept.