Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient

Re:Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient by rayiner on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:23PM (#23827248)

Why does the Bay have such bad housing and transit? Fiber deployment is, first and foremost, a municipal issue. Municipal governments have almost total control over the process. Some cities make it easier to build it than others: https://broadbandnow.com/research/fiber-friendly-cities. I’ve got two fiber lines to my house a few miles outside Annapolis. Verizon, which covers the vast majority of the population of Maryland, plus Comcast. I had fiber at both of my precious addresses (DC and Baltimore). My parents had fiber since 2005 back in their Virginia house, and now in their Maryland house. (They don’t even have public sewer and water.)

Whatever the big picture national issues are, there is no reason the Bay Area should be lagging even compared to the rest of the US. Rich suburbs of tightly packed single family homes are prime fiber territory. Those are the very first places Verizon wired up with FiOS 15 years ago.

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Re:Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient by Spooky23 on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:23PM (#23827570)

Isn’t most Virginia governance at the county level?

I live in NY, and each town or city gets to negotiate franchise agreements that always favor the telcos. You have to wield a big stick with these companies, who divide and conquer.

In my cities case, in exchange for some bullshit (public access tv and filming equipment for the high school) gave Spectrum an exclusive contract for TV.

So Verizon brought FIOS to every town around us, and we’re stuck in the internet ghetto.

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