[mchristen]

FWIW Google is still rolling fiber in my market.

And you are right, it's not subsidies, it's engineered monopolies causing the problem which is why you see the competition actually working.

Google had to use microtrenching because they couldn't get access to existing rights of ways on telephone poles owned by other providers, mainly AT&T in my area.

[o-__-o]

Depends on your state. My state allows pole sharing but a 48hour line break fix req or other providers can “fix” it for you and etc

Its really expensive to run an isp here