Hannigan, Martin writes: >As long as the hardware can keep up, the amount of glass in spectrum >in the ground should make this an impossibility for the near term, >10 years plus.
Fiber isn't useful by itself; there are two obvious things needed to turn a piece of glass into something that can carry IP - transmission equipment and routers. While it'll be a while before carriers need to trench across the Rockies again, the day of needing to buy the equipment to plug into the fiber is already here for some providers.
