I feel the pain. I pay $80/mo for 200Mb/s down. But, still, installing fiber is just expensive. Much more expensive than almost anything else, and requires sk

I feel the pain. I pay $80/mo for 200Mb/s down. But, still, installing fiber is just expensive. Much more expensive than almost anything else, and requires skill and experience to terminate the connections, and that's even overlooking any regulatory hurdles of digging along the right-of-way, private and public land ownership issues, the costs of the equipment, and the fragility of the fiber itself once installed. None of those costs really scale. In fact, they increase linearly as the pool of available installers decreases, and that's not even talking about the cost of connecting that fiber to anything on the other end.