It's long past time we gave up on waiting for Big Telco to do its job. Instead, America should look to the entities with proven track-records for getting fiber to our curbs: small, private, competitive ISPs and local governments. These are the home of the "patient money" that doesn't mind ten-year payoffs for investments in fiber. Fiber is vastly superior to every other means of delivering high-speed Internet to our homes, schools, institutions, and businesses.
Nothing else even comes close not 5G, either. That's why we actively support legislation in California to have the state finance a universal open-access fiber infrastructure built by smaller entities. Policymakers shouldn't assume that the dirty laundry Frontier just aired in its bankruptcy is unique to that one company.
Frontier's bankruptcy is the inevitable consequence of long-term network neglect caused by an emphasis on short term profits. They're not, and they're still profitable on paper, but only because they can paper over their steadily eroded customer numbers because they are making profits through their wireless divisions and their content subsidiaries.
We have updated this post to clarify the changes made to the program in August It goes by many names, but no matter how you cut it, the new San Francisco—Public investments in open access fiber networks, instead of more subsidies for broadband carriers, will bring high-speed internet on a more cost-efficient basis to millions of Americans and create an infrastructure that can handle internet growth for decades, according to a new report.
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When viewed in the long term, Jeffrey said fiber optic cable is more cost effective than a copper network. Jeff Kagan, an independent telecommunications analyst based in Atlanta, said regardless of the expense involved, Frontier has no choice but to forge ahead with its plan if the company wants to continue to exist.
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