It's important everyone has access, but just about every technology in the history of technology has gone through a cycle of early adopter => general use => com

It's important everyone has access, but just about every technology in the history of technology has gone through a cycle of early adopter => general use => commodity. If wealthy neighborhoods are never allowed to adopt fiber, fiber will never be cheap enough to deploy in Nowhere, USA. There's always a fixed labor cost for laying the pipes, but the endpoint hardware for fiber is currently pretty pricey. Compare to cable, whose modems used to be hundreds of dollars, and can now be had for $30.