Re: Gigabit Internet costs
The issue is not whether Verizon knows how to go about it (they do; I live in a FIOS-serviced area); however, most investors do not; they are underwhelming as far as investing in FTTH; they would rather go cheap (FTTN or even shorter) why else did FIOS deployment AND Google Fiber deployment BOTH come to an abrupt halt? Investors in infrastructure, by and large, are cheapskates - it is not even unique to FTTH; look at ALL infrastructure investment! Everybody wants to do it on-the-cheap. You can't do it on-the-cheap and get a quality product. (Even the PRC learned THAT lesson with their HSR (high-speed rail) deployment; they tried to do it cheap and it cost them - as in LIVES (Google "PRC early HSR deployment fatalities"). While they value life far less than other nations, they do still value it;, and even they don't want to lost that much face.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
