> When you serve high-rise apartment buildings, ethernet is a viable alternative to DSL. I don't see a technical reason why an independent ISP can't serve a few

> When you serve high-rise apartment buildings, ethernet is a viable alternative to DSL. I don't see a technical reason why an independent ISP can't serve a few central districts of a city with fiber and ethernet as the last mile (in this case, the last few meters). That's what's happening in Australia with our national fibre network. Fibre runs to the bottom of apartment blocks, router in the basement and Ethernet to each individual apartment.