Did you know that the theoretical top end speed for a single pair of fiber is somewhere in the Terabits per second?
All that phone companies will need to do to get future bandwidth improvements is swap out the "old" gigabit fiber module with a 10 gigabit, then with a 40 gigabit, then with a 100 gigabit, etc, and boom faster speeds with no fiber changes.
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All this whining and bitching by phone companies that they have to replace decades-old copper with fiber effectively means they will not have to upgrade that fiber for about a century or more to get continuous performance improvements.
So while they may have gotten maybe 25-50 years of life out of the copper in the ground now, the fiber likely won't have to be touched for maybe 100+ years.
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But they just can't *afford* to upgrade each of us rural people to gigabit fiber, because the upfront cost to upgrade us would hurt their next quarter's net profit. Oh, the calamity!
Forget the fact that they will be raking in profits from that one-time fiber install for us rural people, for possibly the next century or more.
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CenturyLink remote pedestal: RUBY, 10 miles west of Gilman, WI
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20533172-Rural-Century-Telephone-remote-terminal-unit
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20530745-Name-of-this-polemount-outdoor-telco-canister
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