Stephen Sprunk wrote: > The fiber plant would presumably be paid for with 30-year bonds, same as > any other municipal infrastructure (eg. water and sewer lines--the real > "pipes"), for which interest rates are currently running around the rate > of inflation. There is no need to pay them off quickly.
In addition, as PON is even less efficient initially when subscriber density is low and there are few subscribers to share a field splitter (unless extremely lengthy drop cables are used, which costs a lot), PON is slower to pay them off. Masataka Ohta