[zdragnar]

If it's anything like where I am, they paid little or nothing to actually get the fiber to their house.

As with all rural infrastructure, low population density means high costs, especially if not everyone is a customer but you still have to run a cable past their house.

My rate is a little better than that- I think $120 for 150 or 200 symmetric- but it's still simultaneously more expensive than what I'd pay in the city and a far better deal than what we had before. Eventually they'll maybe make some money back on what I'm sure was a not inexpensive outlay just getting it to my house in the first place.

[AngryData]

But at the same time fiber is even cheaper to rollout than copper lines, and we managed to roll out telephone lines all across the US and to every house without nearly as much trouble. Taking into account inflation it wasn't exactly real cheap to but a telephone line at first, but it was at least available.