[Spooky23]

On my block, they installed about 4 poles. The fiber splicing/install work took about 3 hours. Those poles will serve something like 150 households someday. This is a mid-density urban block with 1-4 family buildings.

It took Verizon two weeks to install external FIOS CPE equipment in my brothers’ subdivision, and probably yielded fewer homes.

That’s a lot of capital cost, and these telcos are looking for margins closer to cellular. They get that by eliminating these costs and getting better regulatory terms.

[learc83]

You're comparing a subdivision to an urban block, and you're not including time and cost to clear LOS obstacles. It's also very unlikely that 4 small poles will have direct line of site to 150 households outside of high density apartment buildings where running fiber directly to the building is already easy.