On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 3:49:49 PM UTC-5, danny burstein wrote:
In trader_4 writes:

But aren't they delivering cable TV services too using that fiber?
If so, how do they do that over the old copper? Not sure what the point
is to getting fiber to within 1/2 mile and then stopping.

It's much easier and cheaper to splice copper wires (even coax)
and terminate it into equipment than doing it with fibre.

So "fiber to the block" is pretty common, and copper the
last 1,000 feet can easily handle all the standard amounts
of required bandwidth


I guess that depends on what the standard amounts of required bandwidth are.
You sure aren't going to get 100+ mbit/sec over 1000 ft of 50 year
old copper telephone wire. Here in NJ Verizon Fios is fiber up
to the house. Which is what you would need to equal what I and
many others have through cable/internet. People that have copper for
the last 1000 ft, are they getting cable TV and internet through
that pipe?