Good. Because the end result is that someone eventually WILL bring fiber or a fiber alternative and the other company will be SOL for having a service that is

Good. Because the end result is that someone eventually WILL bring fiber or a fiber alternative and the other company will be SOL for having a service that is never available for part of the community. Right now I have a situation where AT&T has fiber across most of my city, but not my neighborhood. And Spectrum has fiber in my neighborhood, but not my side of the street. So I'm stuck with T-Mobile wireless after having used AT&T DSL for the past 4 years because neither Spectrum nor AT&T will run fiber The aforementioned requirement would have pushed fiber everywhere. There's zero difference between the homes on my side of the street and the other side. Or the homes in my neighborhood and the next one over. Same size, same prices, same sort of people in the same tax brackets with the same economic conditions. I'd rather see a company lose out on an entire market than establish itself only over part of it. Internet access is opportunity.