Verizon runs fiber lines to your house from the street for free.
When the fiber is not already on the telephone poles, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars due to them needing to run it from the nearest node/relay to your street, to your house.
This is why a lot of fiber companies in areas cost so much. They literally run a dedicated line to your house.
Fibre on telephone poles? All the ISPs I've seen offering the service do it underground, excluding one local ISP that said they'd run it along telephone poles if there were no existing ducts and it was impractical to build new ones.
Phone lines are all dedicated to your house, but nearly everyone (within the US at least) has one (although many are starting to just use mobiles instead. 10s of thousands is a bit much, that being said you do need to go through the government if you're using existing government infrastructure (ducts, telephone poles, land, et cetera), which takes some time/money. And as for setting up an ISP beign a huge many million dollar program, have a look at B4RN, they're doing gigabit fibre on a budget, admittedly they're only using council land/roads for small portions of the fibre but it proves setting up an ISP isn't impossible.
That said, this looks incredibly sketchy, and do you really need the extra 10megabit/s.
Also does Comcast really charge $200/mo! I live in New Zealand (far side of the pacific, hundreds of KMs from all the servers, you get the idea) and Orcon sells a 30megabit (unlimited) connection for $99NZ a month, a bit more and you get the full 100megabit/s.
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Fibre on telephone poles? All the ISPs I've seen offering the service do it underground, excluding one local ISP that said they'd run it along telephone poles if there were no existing ducts and it was impractical to build new ones.
Phone lines are all dedicated to your house, but nearly everyone (within the US at least) has one (although many are starting to just use mobiles instead. 10s of thousands is a bit much, that being said you do need to go through the government if you're using existing government infrastructure (ducts, telephone poles, land, et cetera), which takes some time/money. And as for setting up an ISP beign a huge many million dollar program, have a look at B4RN, they're doing gigabit fibre on a budget, admittedly they're only using council land/roads for small portions of the fibre but it proves setting up an ISP isn't impossible.
That said, this looks incredibly sketchy, and do you really need the extra 10megabit/s.
Also does Comcast really charge $200/mo! I live in New Zealand (far side of the pacific, hundreds of KMs from all the servers, you get the idea) and Orcon sells a 30megabit (unlimited) connection for $99NZ a month, a bit more and you get the full 100megabit/s.