Yeah. I feel like these products were always designed to be ultra short lifespan devices, but in practice, they live forever. ONTs from 2013 are still being u

Yeah. I feel like these products were always designed to be ultra short lifespan devices, but in practice, they live forever. ONTs from 2013 are still being used and sold new, so clearly investing in fixing bugs and testing would have paid dividends. But I guess it's that case where you can't go to Amazon and buy the best ONT; Calix or whomever sells them to an ISP once, everyone has a good round of golf and dinner or whatever, and the customers are stuck being sad (and maybe the ISPs give out token credits; we gave out a lot of token credits). The ISP mostly competes by being available to a customer; if you dig up the street, then they don't really have an option to go elsewhere unless someone else digs up the street. Hopefully some crazy person will launch an astronomically expensive fleet of satellites that solves these problems once and for all. All you need are a few engineers on the CPE team that give a damn, and you can fix the Internet for everyone in the world.