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Fiber Broadband Sees Record Growth
According to the latest data from the Fiber Broadband Association (a coalition of hardware vendors and other fiber suppliers), 35 million new North American homes were passed by fiber during 2017. That growth was largely thanks to increased deployment participation by smaller ISPs and municipal broadband providers, a segment that saw a 16.5% fiber deployment growth rate compared to 14.1% for larger ISPs. In the States alone, 15.4 million American households now subscribe to full fiber service, and the 4.4 million homes freshly marketed to in 2017 was the “most ever in a single year” and 15% over 2016 levels, notes the group.

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This was one of the first places Verizon ran fiber to the buildings, even before it was called FiOS off the north Bothell switch.
Since Frontier took over the residential areas for several miles have a reputation of poor fios service EXTREMELY bandwidth curtailed with regular afternoon slowdowns, making Comcast services very competive.
NOW Comcast is aggressively building out in the surrounding bio-tech centered business parks because Frontier can't meet the needs 8 blocks from the switch.
The point being you can be passed by older fiber that only serve a low grade product. SO FTTx and the current plant conditions really need to be considered in the PASSED vs SERVED equation