I always thought that the cable was being run from SA up the coast to the middle east and then out to india. I guess I was wrong. I am going through that right now with my internet connection. I just switched to Verizon Home service and they run Fiber right to my house. It is terminated at a box right next to my electricity and water. They use the existing cables wiring to send the signal around the house.
Their main issue with running the fiber network it that they don't want to be forced by the government to sell their bandwidth to smaller companies in order to create a fake market. The big cable company Comcast was forced to sell space on their cable network and all the incumbent telcos Verizon included has been forced to sell space on their phone networks. I can see their point. If I spent billions of dollars to build a fiber network why should i be forced to sell space on it to competitors? If tax dollars are used i can see the argument but not when I fund it myself.
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