[kazen44]

also, the infra (which ADSL runs on) was build in a time when telephone companies used to be either state-owned or a single monopoly with heavy goverment involvement.

Doing the same thing with fiber is necessary, but will not happen without strong govermental involvement.

[verve_rat]

Indeed. New Zealand has had a pretty successful fiber roll out over the last several years because the government awarded exclusive contracts to fiber providers that then have to provide access to their network to all ISPs.

Works great. Even my village of several hundred people has fiber now.