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Teksavvy is actually building out their own FTTH around the town/city they're headquartered in:

* https://www.teksavvy.com/in-the-news/2021-press-releases/tek...

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/08/03/teksavvy-launches-fibre-n...

In the same vein: given the condo boom in Toronto/GTA, there are companies whose 'niche' is that they run fibre to various developments, pre- and post-construction, and offer high-speed Internet:

* https://www.canadianbusiness.com/innovation/condo-owners-are...

* https://www.beanfield.com/residential/

* https://www.fibrestream.ca



Fibre, and GePON particularly is noticeably cheaper to both install, and operate than copper.

You need to have really a lot of existing copper to keep staying at it to have any hope to pay it off.

All "3rd world" countries in recent memory I've been all had either LX to premises, or some kind of PON.

You can now get a gigabit even in places like Pakistan.


That's because 3rd world countries start from scratch. Developed countries have 50-year-old infrastructure to consider. Can't dig 50 centimetres into the ground without hitting something important.


Well, developed countries to the large extend already have fibre in every major city, it's just getting to it is near impossible for mortals, take a look on the post above how the guy in Toronto kept begging big ISPs to lease him fibre.


Developed countries have fibre between every major city, and through every major city, but they have only been pushing fibre out in the 'first/last-mile' in the last few years:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x

For the last few decades it has been copper, either twisted-pair or co-axial, to just about everywhere.


We are not talking about the last mile, since it's the easiest part in comparison to the developing world, and with regards to getting the right of way.

It's the intra-city fibre backbone which is either non-existent in the developing world, or extremely hard to get connection rights to in the developed countries.




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