Fiber Internet Deployment

Most Americans won't have fiber to the premises unless a local muni provider rolls it out. It's very expensive, and most incumbent ILECs gave up on it (See: Verizon->Frontier). "Should" is dependent on cost recovery of trenching, labor, and equipment costs.

I think this is more common in rural area where it's not economically feasible to run fiber to everyone.

Don’t most people in major metro areas have fiber options now? (Municipal or not)

Fiber should be the goal for everyone. Fiber is cheaper and lighter than copper which is why rural areas that haven't had any internet options except 56k on old degraded lines or satellite are finally now getting high speed internet the last few years, usually through co-op fiber startups. It can be hung on power poles, it can be installed with a trencher, and now that horizontal boring machines are incredibly common it can be put under existing infrastructure very easily.

Because installing fiber wires to every residence is not profitable when the local coaxial cable company can give everyone low quality 500Mbps down / 3Mbps up connections for $45 per month. It is why you usually only see fiber in brand new developments where there is no additional cost to bury it while everything is already excavated for all the other utilities, or in older neighborhoods with overhead wires where it is cheaper to install.If you are in a relatively modern area with burie

Not in cities where there is cheap fibre available. But in rural areas it can definitely be like this. It's at least partly because the government ordered our national telecom provider to halt their fibre rollout in the 80s/90s because it deemed it anti-competitive. It's still catching up for lost time.

There might be fiber running up the village.If the speed doesn't saturate DSL or coax standards, running fiber to every home is not very wise, even for long term.Until recently, fiber was not even that cheap to distribute in larger cities. It's been 3-4 years since the city I live in switched to FTTX distribution.

Maybe bring fiber to major cities before giving select customers terabyte connections?

No. It's about nit needing to rip out whole buildings to put in fiber to the plug. They say it in the article.

Its not like it is some monumental task. Fiber is cheaper than copper, and we managed to lay copper telephone lines and power lines to everybody. Where I live right now didn't even have DSL available at any point in time, the local telecomm didn't want to spend money on replacing some of the poorly functioning 60 year old copper lines despite everyone clamoring for any kind of wired connection. And yet a startup ISP managed to not only lay down gigabit direct to home fiber to the entir