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by satvikpendem 1022 days ago
The company pays but then it can also use other companies' fiber, so sometimes it's worth it to do so in order to show that they have coverage in a certain area where there might not be fiber (that they then lay down), and also that they cover everywhere else.

It's quite a clever system that uses market greed to incentivize building. It's the same system as railroads, imagine if railroads could not share tracks with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangements_between_railroads...