It's accessible to any competitor, not FREE to any competitor. The business that builds the infrastructure gets to charge a reasonable fee to use it. I'm from

It's accessible to any competitor, not FREE to any competitor. The business that builds the infrastructure gets to charge a reasonable fee to use it. I'm from Sweden which has built lots of rural fiber in the northern parts of the country. One setup is that the local power company builds an open-access fiber network and lets any ISP buy into using it, with the power company not even offering ISP services themselves. The power company already has lots of know-how, infrastructure and right-of-way that they can leverage to build and maintain a network of cables easily, but they aren't interested in running a bunch of customer-facing internet services.