> Installing fiber is damn expensive. It is a hugely capital-intensive business. A sword is constantly hanging over your head as the entrenched monopolies can c

> Installing fiber is damn expensive. It is a hugely capital-intensive business. A sword is constantly hanging over your head as the entrenched monopolies can cut prices to $10/month at any moment in any market where you are laying fiber (trivial when they are bringing in $100/mo per customer where they are the only choice). That's not correct. Installing fiber is extremely cheap. DWDM prisms are cheap. Long range 10G optics is dirt cheap. > Even though I have sonic fiber in SF it is actually a waste: on the poles in front of my house there are three completely duplicated pieces of communications infrastructure: copper phone lines, copper cable lines, and sonic fiber. If ATT ever bothers to install fiber then I'll have duplicate fiber lines. That is a deadweight loss for basically no benefit and only enables 2-3 competitors rather than potentially 20 or 30. And this "we want perfection", ladies and gentlemen, is why you are not getting telecom competition.