There’s no good reason why they can’t run fiber to your home if you already have power lines and such going to your house. The utility poles, roads, and all the other infrastructure is there already, they mostly just need to send some guys in cherry pickers out to actually go run the fiber and hook it up to your home, and odds are they even already have guys out in the area servicing the old phone and/or cable lines that are probably also running to your house. They just don’t want to spend the money (that the government gave them years ago to do specifically that)
The only good reason not to have at least the option of running fiber to your house is if you’re otherwise off the grid.
We’ve already ran power and phone lines damn-near everywhere, it’s not that much harder to run fiber.
No, it can’t be done overnight, but this is something the government has thrown billions at telecom companies in various way for them to do starting decades ago. We should just about be at the point by now where everyone who wants fiber has it if the telecoms had done what they were supposed to do.
It’s not the first time we’ve had this kind of infrastructure rollout either. In the mid 30s, 9/10 rural areas had no electrical service, by 1953 that had flipped and more than 90% of rural areas were electrified, so about 20 years give or take to build out electrical infrastructure almost from scratch.
Now yes, there’s more people, more homes, etc filling up all of that empty space, but like I said, a lot of the necessary infrastructure is already in place, and we’ve come a long way technologically since the 50s, I’m sure the linemen and laborers setting up the grid almost 100 years ago would’ve killed to have a modern bucket truck and digger derrick at their disposal.
There’s a whole lot of issues you can use the “the us is a big country” for, but it doesn’t hold water on this one for me.
Everyone who has power by grid has all the hard infrastructure in-place for fiber to their home. The only thing blocking it is corporate-political corruption
Not everywhere that has power has fibre though.
I think that’s kind of the point they’re making
There’s no good reason why they can’t run fiber to your home if you already have power lines and such going to your house. The utility poles, roads, and all the other infrastructure is there already, they mostly just need to send some guys in cherry pickers out to actually go run the fiber and hook it up to your home, and odds are they even already have guys out in the area servicing the old phone and/or cable lines that are probably also running to your house. They just don’t want to spend the money (that the government gave them years ago to do specifically that)
The only good reason not to have at least the option of running fiber to your house is if you’re otherwise off the grid.
There was a great talk about this at a hacker convention a few years back. Infuriating, but great.
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I think you all massively underestimate how much is required to run fibre out to everyone. It’s not impossible, but USA is a very big country by area.
We’ve already ran power and phone lines damn-near everywhere, it’s not that much harder to run fiber.
No, it can’t be done overnight, but this is something the government has thrown billions at telecom companies in various way for them to do starting decades ago. We should just about be at the point by now where everyone who wants fiber has it if the telecoms had done what they were supposed to do.
It’s not the first time we’ve had this kind of infrastructure rollout either. In the mid 30s, 9/10 rural areas had no electrical service, by 1953 that had flipped and more than 90% of rural areas were electrified, so about 20 years give or take to build out electrical infrastructure almost from scratch.
Now yes, there’s more people, more homes, etc filling up all of that empty space, but like I said, a lot of the necessary infrastructure is already in place, and we’ve come a long way technologically since the 50s, I’m sure the linemen and laborers setting up the grid almost 100 years ago would’ve killed to have a modern bucket truck and digger derrick at their disposal.
There’s a whole lot of issues you can use the “the us is a big country” for, but it doesn’t hold water on this one for me.
Everyone who has power by grid has all the hard infrastructure in-place for fiber to their home. The only thing blocking it is corporate-political corruption
That’s absolutely false.
You seem to be missing the point
They should