| ▲ | slopinthebag 4 hours ago | |
Why would fiber to the house be a natural monopoly? | ||
| ▲ | andriamanitra 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Because the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers to the same house would be tremendously wasteful. | ||
| ▲ | inemesitaffia 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Overbuilding makes no financial sense for companies | ||