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You seem to be missing that the biggest expense is actually running and burying the wires themselves. Coax is already deployed in huge parts of the US, and it’s

by orev 3y ago

You seem to be missing that the biggest expense is actually running and burying the wires themselves. Coax is already deployed in huge parts of the US, and it’s not easy or fast to rewire the whole country with something new.

robocat 3y ago
No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a decade. This was a public-private partnership (funded by government but not rolled-out nor owned by our government). The existing cable in my city is now unused (not sure how their incentives were structured, but I couldn't sign up to cable 4 years ago even though house was already wired for it) I originally thought it was a dumb idea - state funding for netflix - however covid showed the value of the fibre connections. https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb22-roll-out https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb... The second phase of the UFB rollout, called UFB2, means that 85% of New Zealanders will have fibre access by the end of 2022