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I’m in a neighborhood developed between 60 and 75 years ago. We have fiber.

• cptskippy 6y ago
  They probably had to replace aging infrastructure. Telcos aren't laying copper anymore. Verizon caught flak for neglecting aging copper networks and wanting to upgrade everything to fiber. A drawback of fiber is that it generally doesn't work during power outages where as copper does.
  • AuthorizedCust 6y ago
    Not really. They mostly just threw it on the poles.
    • cptskippy 6y ago
      Bell South ran fiber all over metro Atlanta in the late 90s but never into neighborhoods and they never lit it up as far as I know.
      • easton 6y ago
        That’s wild, considering AT&T is now running fiber service everywhere. I’m surprised they wouldn’t use it for that, at this point they could provide service to Atlanta overnight.
  • toast0 6y ago
    The VDSL2 remote terminal that services my house cuts off the second utility power does. So don't count on copper working. Although when the utility power outage was due to a downed line between me and the remote terminal, the DSL didn't drop.