Must be a US thing with not wanting to put new copper in.
Here in Manitoba I saw that the Winnipeg Chapter of Habitat for Humanity had new copper extended to a redeveloped surplussed school yard by Manitoba Telecom Services that they were changing to a 30 home subdivision.
MTS just spliced into the existing copper on the back lane across the street and put a few aerial terminals on the new hydro poles.
Shaw cable also came in and extended their coax cable to the same subdivision the same way to give the new owners the choice of who they wanted as provider of TV and/or dial tone.
