No they don’t. Technological advances make copper and radio carry more bandwidth OVER SHORTER DISTANCES. This is why WISP are deploying micro POPs and cellular

No they don’t. Technological advances make copper and radio carry more bandwidth OVER SHORTER DISTANCES. This is why WISP are deploying micro POPs and cellular carriers are deploying small cells. This is a huge difference compared to fiber where the same infrastructure will scale from 100M to 100G. Forklift upgrades and truck rolls are expensive. Copper and radio aren’t like fiber where swapping a $9 optic for a $19 optic makes you go from 1G to 10G. All this makes a massive difference in TCO in fiber’s favor over the lifetime of the assets. Providing fixed line service over copper or radio is silly in the long term as each upgrade requires you to build out fiber closer and closer to the end user bit by bit. Better to do it at once and reap the benefits, both in terms of service and costs. Not deploying faster signaling in copper networks is also a misstatement. Cable networks are busy splitting nodes, deploying more fiber and upgrading to faster versions of DOCSIS all the time. Most telcos have already transitioned to fiber and are not building out copper anymore. Here the US is an outlier, as the telcos here are just milking the existing copper assets for revenues until they exit the business.