[Uehreka]

They’re referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre

[hiAndrewQuinn]

I wouldn't call that wasted yet. It's just latent. Someone has to invent the startup that uses dark fibre maps to figure out exactly how far away one can build a house away from civilization and still have a 1000 MB/s connection.

[illiac786]

But the large majority of this was created after the bubble bursted, no?