<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 12:30 AM Mike Bolitho <<a href="mailto:mikebolitho@gmail.com">mikebolitho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Agreed....this is why monopolies are bad and municipal fiber is good.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's not like municipal fiber has some magic spell to make last mile affordable though. On OP's instance he would run into the same issue and would be paying that five figure amount to bring FTTP. Municipal fiber is only good if you happen to live where a municipality has already buried conduit.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not saying we should support monopolistic practices, but "municipal fiber everywhere!" isn't necessarily the answer either.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">That's fair. What I really meant, and didn't take the time to think through and express properly, was this: financing a large fiber buildout like it's a long-term investment, rather than something that should make back its capital cost in 1-3 years, gets fiber to more people. Most commercial ISPs do not want to do this because they want immediate profit. Municipalities are used to making long-term infrastructure investments (like bridges, etc.) and are more amenable to doing it with fiber.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif"></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Even if there were a municipality which had done a fiber buildout near OP's desired house, he may have still run into the same issue of no fiber being close enough to be financially viable. But the more fiber plant there is, the less likely that scenario becomes.</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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