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Clear Lake Iowa pop 8100, is installing fiber to every home, digging and drilling it underground. It was kinda interesting to watch. Seweral contractors were involved. With all the workers and digging and drilling equipment running around town, it seemed like an invasion and occupation. I wonder what the total cost of the project is and how the local phone company can afford to do this. They will provide phone, data, and TV over the fiber. I suppose it is the current trend for towns to convert to fiber like this.

Since they are a small local phone company I'd bet they're getting a lot of bucks from the rural broadband push.

I wonder if they are going to install fiber to every single address :confused:

When Verizon installs fiber for FiOS, they get to pick which buildings will get the upgraded facilities and which ones won't.

Our town of 873 has been on fiber for about two years now. They installed fiber to every home and started converting a few years ago. They provide phone and data over it, no TV and no plans for it as far as I know.

Sounds like Blacksburg, VA. Bell Atlantic partnered with Virginia Tech. to do the same thing back in the late 80's.

They are bringing fiber to every home. I don't know what they are doing about multi-tenant residential or commercial buildings. They are not digging up mainstreet.

Very common here in this part of Nebraska.....many of the independent telcos are in the process or have already completed FTTH overbuilds running a fiber to every residence/business. Multi-tenant and commercial buildings receive a larger ONT that is designed for more POTS, ethernet, T1 ports or whatever services they need. Most of the overbuilds are GPON, but a few are going with active ethernet.

Kind of a waste if you ask me. Cox is moving away from point to point fiber in our area, going HFC. Verizon is moving away from land lines all together towards CDMA and doing everything wireless and that includes analog phone service as well as digital tv and phone service.

I don't know that I would call that a waste. With fiber in the ground, you now have the potential for unlimited bandwidth in the future......just by changing equipment on both ends. With, HFC you will always run into bottlenecks and potential for interference, and with CDMA/wireless...that spectrum is getting more congested all the time.

Manitoba Telecom has announced that new subdivisions and overbuilds in older areas are going to be FTTH.