Isn’t that a result of the push to cable-tvize the internet? Symmetric high bandwidth internet became commonplace during the height of the P2P downloading era where I live. Because the market was there.
I presume it is just a consequence of the enormous costs to build out a fiber network that would yield uncompetitive prices compared to the internet people are willing to accept from their coaxial cable internet providers.
A combination of people do not demand it enough to pay sufficiently to get neighborhoods wired with fiber, and coaxial cable companies having a disincentive to allocate more of their wire capacity to internet bandwidth since they want to avoid becoming a dumb pipe.
The only way out is taxpayer subsidized build out of fiber operated like a utility, such as the system in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Isn’t that a result of the push to cable-tvize the internet? Symmetric high bandwidth internet became commonplace during the height of the P2P downloading era where I live. Because the market was there.
I presume it is just a consequence of the enormous costs to build out a fiber network that would yield uncompetitive prices compared to the internet people are willing to accept from their coaxial cable internet providers.
A combination of people do not demand it enough to pay sufficiently to get neighborhoods wired with fiber, and coaxial cable companies having a disincentive to allocate more of their wire capacity to internet bandwidth since they want to avoid becoming a dumb pipe.
The only way out is taxpayer subsidized build out of fiber operated like a utility, such as the system in Chattanooga Tennessee.