Not funny, but real: the price is a lot higher in rich countries than in poor countries. Fiber itself is almost dirt cheap, installing it makes a huge differenc

Not funny, but real: the price is a lot higher in rich countries than in poor countries. Fiber itself is almost dirt cheap, installing it makes a huge difference: in my area everybody hanged fiber to the existing light poles with almost no cost, it looks like a forest but you have fiber anywhere. If you want to dig and put fiber the cost is several orders of magnitude higher. The company where my brother works linked 2 branches a few miles away with fiber almost 10 years ago for less than $1,000 in a single night in the middle of a capital city. Permits? No. Rent to the pole owners? No. This is how most of the city got 1 Gbps internet for ~ $10/month.