I agree with Gary Kim that FTTH is needed, if not today, at least very soon. Unless a service provider is looking to sell out this year or next, they should be considering doing what rural Smithville Telephone did and deploy fiber to the home or FTTH.
This is one of those investments where Wall Street may be out of touch with Main Street as one day we will wake up and customers will want bandwidth which can only be achieved with massive amounts of photons traveling on glass strands.
When this transition will take place is impossible to know for sure.
What we can all be sure of however is that it will happen.
The question is, who will be left standing with thousands of miles of obsolete copper and cable when the music stops?
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