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> ISPs really don't have this information so beating chest about ISPs needing to supply better and better data is nonsensical. Do you really think that ISP's m

• rayiner 7y ago
  Often, yes. They know where they have plant. They don’t necessarily know where they don’t have plant. If your house doesn’t already have service, it can be complicated to figure out if it can get service. Maybe you just need to extend an existing node one block over. Or maybe you need to trench half a mile. Until someone actually rings up and orders service to a previously unserved address, they don’t try to figure this all out. I saw this in action when I ordered Comcast Gigabit Pro at my house. They looked at a map and figured there was a place close enough where they could splice fiber. Then they sent out someone to do a ground survey, put together an estimate, and then some bean counters decided whether they would eat the up front cost. The whole process took a month or so (followed by a couple of months to get permits and two full days for a four-person team to actually pull the fiber).