These maths are quite theoretical! In reality in a 1:32 PON you'll typically use somewhere between 14 and 30 ports (because typically you want to leave at least

These maths are quite theoretical! In reality in a 1:32 PON you'll typically use somewhere between 14 and 30 ports (because typically you want to leave at least one spare port). In rural areas the lower side of that is more likely as your splitter placement will be governed by how far apart properties are. 864f cable which is the biggest you'd realistically blow is about 11mm diameter, and costs around £9/metre. If in the PON situation you're blowing say 72f for £1/metre then your costs are honestly not that much higher, considering you don't need to have lots of splitters all over the place (often you have actual passive splitter cabinets, as putting them in chambers is not always possible) you may need a bigger splice joint but not really much bigger because you're now using ribbon fibre. The number of splice operations would be similar too. Obviously this doesn't scale super well, but we are discussing rural subsidised fibre here, not low cost competitive urban deployments. The likelihood is 864f is more than enough for a whole village, or even several. If not add a second.