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A comment on Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband. Parent comment

Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by rubber_duck on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:43AM (#13193990)
He said per person, not per household - not the same unless you're living alone. Also this doesn't make your internet free you have to pay for the service on top of that.

And believe it or not a lot of people don't care about having fiber internet available.

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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by theandrewbailey on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:20PM (#13194867)
Once installed, fiber optic lines become long term infrastructure, and will be used for decades. With those time scales in mind, the line installation cost is reasonable even after accounting for market penetration and occupancy rates.
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