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"FiOS" is a Verizon trademark, not a general term. Fiber to the home is an entirely different matter from commercial and municipal fiber optic links, mainly in that they do not have to reach almost every single address. They connect only businesses, government buildings such as town hall, schools and a community center, cellular base stations, etc. The most expensive portion of the physical manifestation of the Internet is the "last mile" between neighborhood hubs and residential modems. Hence why ISPs re-use existing cabling such as copper twisted pair and coaxial cable originally laid for telephony and television respectively. Large capital expenditures are required to get in the game and barriers to entry such as pole access regulations, customers expectation of a bundled TV service, telephone service regulations, customer support staffing, etc. make it hard for plucky startups to get a foothold. Some states have even banned publicly owned ISPs! Of course once an ISP is big enough and is one of the duopoly it can raise rates annually and cap, throttle and assess overage fees.