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by icedchai 1113 days ago
The competition is other local companies offering fiber. Around here, the incumbent telco offers fiber (Verizon Fios.)

And some of the problems are technical. To do those mid-split upgrades that provide more bandwidth, they'll need to replace every amplifier between the user and the HFC node. That's a lot of truck rolls. Only to find out there's tons of interference on those frequencies.... more maintenance. It's no wonder it's taken years to deploy DOCSIS 3.1.