I like how they report on fiber as if it's new and not half a century old. It's pretty embarrassing that the US spent all the money to develop all these technologies and then failed to actually deploy them in a reasonable time span

@ryanvigil2941

Жыл бұрын

The product that you get in America is never the most optimal, always the most profitable.

@justinbrah627

Жыл бұрын

Funny. Considering America has more fiber to the home than any other Western country.

@lenholt7419

Жыл бұрын

A famous quote "Anyone can make a plan but can they execute it?" I guess one day the news folks will become fully aware and admit they have limited knowledge. It does take time for the cost efficiency to be fully realized. Up Front costs are steep.

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

Right, America invented majority of these technologies for other countries to use them. Again, though it's hard to put all the US in one boat fiber has been deployed in many places for a while..

@musafawundu6718

Жыл бұрын

That's the problem with the United States. There are so many highly sophisticated technologies that have been developed, are very obscure, and also hardly known at all, but they are not being made available widely in public use and as public infrastructure... In large part because of the lack of political will for it...

The US Gov in the late 1980s sought to make the US the worlds most fiber connected country in the world and passed laws in 1992 giving about 400 Billion dollars to the telecoms to build fiber networks to build the entire country a vast network of fiber capable of 10Gb/s+ speeds for every person within 10 years. The companies pocketed almost all of it and said they couldn't actually do it afterwards. So the next time you see some company shilling for money from tax payers over fiber. Remember they were supposed to have 100% fiber internet at gigabit plus speeds by the early-mid 2000s, 20 years ago now. Their complete and utter lack of proper investment in their networks at the rates they charge is such an absurd sum of money that they could more than pay for that right now. Unfortunately the MO right now for these publicly traded companies is most profit for least money spent so until the government sets them a deadline of suspension of license to operate within the US within say 10 years, they will never do it for another 30-40 years. I am personally a person who almost always favors the private sector, but this model of operation has desperately failed the citizens of the USA. I am strongly of the opinion the US Gov should just build it all out and then rent it to the ISPs while capping how much profit they can make off their customers with flat fees. Basically the infrastructure should be nationalized until the ISPs renting fees have paid off the original costs of construction. Then they can purchase the old infrastructure/equipment for legacy systems while the gov builds out/upgrades for the next generation. An alternative to this is that the US Gov could instead just start flinging money at new start up locally based ISPs to start a pricing war with the larger ones. This would cost the tax payer less than footing the entire bill all over again. And when they cry wolf about why they are getting absolutely bent over by the government, should ask them why they didn't just honor their half of the deal couple decades prior... Its one thing in a long long list of BS things that are plaguing this country compared to many other in the first world. Corruption.

@simonjester2424

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say exactly this.

@iali00

Жыл бұрын

Yep! So glad some people don’t have the memory of a goldfish like most Americans seem to have. These are ISPS are completely corrupt and useless. The government needs to take a more active role in these massive undertaking because the private companies are too shortsighted and rotten.

@stevenandrade2979

Жыл бұрын

I worked for the phone company ten years. This is accurate

@dre3k78

Жыл бұрын

Now we are stuck with monopolies in pretty much every market when it comes to local ISPs. And like this video stated 18 states have laws that were paid for by ISPs to make municipal ISPs illegal to protect their monopoly. Nothing worse then crony capitalism.

@3markaw

Жыл бұрын

@@robierahg17 We pioneered broadband . We should be number one but for these corrupt telecoms and their lobbying against competition.

This should have been largely completed in the early 2000s. I got my tech cert and they never implemented fiber, they dragged it for decades since and they still artificially slowing speeds on current fiber networks.

@SpaceRanger187

Жыл бұрын

yes and you better buy some stock shares now

@nesq4104

Жыл бұрын

@@baysidejr exactly. A big scam. News acting like this is a new discovery. Tge implementation of fiber is literally 20 years late right now. They are offering speeds that's should have been given 20 Yeats ago. I was training and got my Cisco certified network associate certificate and learned all this stuff a long time ago. And the fact they are currently substantially slowing speeds and charging high price for a cheaper network to manage than cable

@Jcccc23

Жыл бұрын

So they throttle people !??

@ADobbin1

Жыл бұрын

because they can charge more for satellite.

@dre3k78

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and all these ISPs took billions in subsidies from the government and never fulfilled their end of the bargain. They decided to sit on copper and coax lines that were already run into people's houses and just milk it instead of what they were supposed to be doing....which was deploying fiber.

I can guarantee that the issues with fibre roll out in the US is down to monopolies. Companies have customers by the balls and nothing is going to change that. The limited roll out of Google fibre proved that

@Virt7_

Жыл бұрын

Frontier is my only provider and it’s their DSL. It’s slow but their fiber is coming to me Q4 this year. Whole build in my state is government funded. I’m rural as well

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Nothing to do with monopolies in the US. It is just very labor intensive and expensive to achieve the last mile. Many people live with in a mile of fibre but the cost of connecting to their home simply is too high. If people were presented with the upfront cost of those connections they would run a mile from them.

@Jxhimlol

Жыл бұрын

@@bighands69 It does have to do with monopolies still. My community has a monopoly in the sense that AT&T dug, setup all their equipment here and won’t allow anyone else to connect, monopolies are illegal in California but they find their ways. Spectrum, frontier, etc all day on the system it shows AT&T has some sort of agreement when I try to switch.

@joshuafischer4104

Жыл бұрын

@@Jxhimlol same thing here in Phoenix with only Cox available without any fiber installation nearby

@joshuahill6153

10 ай бұрын

New Zealand has one fibre installer nation wide lol.

It's embarrassing how bad the internet service is in the US.

@AvoidTheCadaver

Жыл бұрын

You haven't been to Australia have you

@adex7038

Жыл бұрын

@@AvoidTheCadaver you're comparing one of the most urbanized countries in the world that can have cities and ppl living everywhere relative to nation that's like 80% desert.

@justinbrah627

Жыл бұрын

America has more fiber than any other Western nation. Europe/Canada/Oceania need to catch up to US.

@adex7038

Жыл бұрын

@@justinbrah627 are your parents brother and sister?

@joeking433

Жыл бұрын

@@AvoidTheCadaver Australia's internet is actually worse than the US? I didn't know it was possible!

As a Telecommunications worker for many years I can tell you it's criminal how much money these companies make and how little they are willing to pay for contracts to the actual builders. Telecommunications workers desperately need to unionize if they ever wish to achieve the success the lineman have.

@vegahusadard2355

Жыл бұрын

Sadly but true

@axvarela

Жыл бұрын

They would just transfer new costs to consumers...

@gpalaces

Жыл бұрын

C.W.A....

@makeleletoulalan5604

Жыл бұрын

@@axvarela I'm fine with that.

@singular9

Жыл бұрын

60$/mo for DSL or Fiber...how is that even the same price.

Yes early adoption of cable tv has played a key role in lagging fiber-to-the-home adoption in the US, BUT the main reason is simply GREED. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now for coax, but providers and their overlords are milking out traditional last mile coax cable till the very last drop to maximize profits and postpone capital expenditure on upgrades, that is all.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Never forget that CNBC is owned by America’s most hated cable company/ISP: Comcast. No wonder they don’t come clean about their role in keeping internet service slow and expensive.

@rolandschindlerii9245

Жыл бұрын

Klickup

@HoloScope

Жыл бұрын

@@rolandschindlerii9245 what?

@abaoaqu1333

Жыл бұрын

There is a belief that fiber to the home is not really as necessary as people think. While fiber as a technology is king the average customers proximity to a fiber node and running coax off of that provide pretty much a similar type of data experience. The proximity reduces the SLA requirements which already are low for a residential customer as compared to a business customer.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto

Жыл бұрын

@@abaoaqu1333 rigggght…and nowadays with everyone in the family wanting to steam to their own device and kids doing videoconferencing and schoolwork online, and so many more people working from home…it would be really nice to have that fiber about now. 12 or 20Mbit upload speeds and 200MBit download speeds are really not gonna cut for people moving big files or everyone steaming 4K. I want fiber in my house and I want it 20 years ago. I want symmetric 1GBit speeds instead of this throttled garbage slowness I’ve been stuck with.

Here in Australia the government built a "state of the art" broadband network using existing 50 year old copper cabling which was delayed many years, over budget billions of dollars and obsolete before it was even started.

Here in NZ our government rolled out Fibre nationally and we went from having one of the worst internet speeds & prices to some of the best in the world.

@ihmpall

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but us is bigger than a small island like nz

@stevel9627

Жыл бұрын

@@ihmpall People used to make the exact same comments about our small size too as to why we never had fast internet. "NZ is too small and isolated of a country to spend Billions installing fibre to every home". Its all excuses and bad ones

@josephj6521

Жыл бұрын

@@ihmpall the USA has 36 people per sq km whilst NZ has 18 people per sq km. Looks like NZ is much more difficult due to density than the USA. USA (and Australia) have no excuses.

@Devilishlybenevolent

Жыл бұрын

@@ihmpall Eating up that corporate bs and regurgitating to others I see 😂😂

@triadwarfare

Жыл бұрын

@@stevel9627 Australia did the same with NBN but they said it's horrible. I think it has to do with scale. Difficulty in installation increases exponentially the larger the area you have to cover.

We’re so behind on this in USA. Should’ve made it available to everyone a decade ago.

@azjeep

Жыл бұрын

the government tried this before and the money was wasted on shareholder! the utilities companies are corrupt

@nelsontry1464

Жыл бұрын

was gonna say the same, fiber optics has been standard for a while here in canada

@Grimpmann

Жыл бұрын

In what way would your life change with faster internet? Please, enlighten me.

@josephj6521

Жыл бұрын

Same in Australia. Our previous conservative government cancelled the progressive government’s plan to install fiber to every home by 2020. In 2013 when the conservatives won government they stopped all fiber unless you had $20k to install it yourself. Now in 2022 we are hoping the new government to fix this mess. It’s discriminatory that only 50% of Australians have fiber (similar to the USA) whilst the rest are on 1800s technology.

@junkeatng

Жыл бұрын

Most countries already went on fiber a decade ago.

Watching this makes me feel like I've been transported back in time 20 years

I've had fiber for around 3 years now, and we were lucky to have been covered by fiber before the pandemic. We started at 25mbps upload and download. Thanks to competition between ISPs here in the Philippines, my current speed is now at 300mbps upload and download for around $40 per month, and that is bundled with TV and a landline phone. Also very happy to be covered by 5G which gives me around 200mbps download speed during the rare instances we get an internet outage.

@maulikpankhania859

Жыл бұрын

Same. in India I pay $14 roughly for 150 MBPS with smart tv and landline.

@Linus76

Жыл бұрын

and theres the single biggest motivation (which is driven by greed) -- theres is no actual competition in the 'free market' of the usa. None.

@bemole

10 ай бұрын

Here in Nepal we pay around 14$ for 300 Mbps internet with IPTV and other bundling services that comes with the internet package.

@fhalen

9 ай бұрын

In Turkey, I pay 9$ for 1000 Mbps Download 20 Mbps Upload speed. Of course, the reason why it is so cheap is that I bought it with a 2-year contract. Currently the same internet package is 17$

@Laminar-Flow

7 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Linus76 Right lmao, as if you’d know anything about technology development and how asymmetrical it often is as a result of competition. It’s as if competition is not the reason why 60-75% of humanity’s technological innovations came out of thin air! Stupidity at its finest.

The reason why they can't get fiberoptic installers is because they aren't willing to pay for it. They are only paying $18-20 an hour "last mile" home installers and $20-25 for infrastructure installers. This is not competitive pay for wire workers, electricians which do similar pulling wires and plugging cables in a last mile installation and running cables on poles earn double that.

@Danman1972

Жыл бұрын

They hire contractors for installation of plant. The companies are paying good money to the contractor. Talk to the contractor who is not paying up...

@lordhosk

Жыл бұрын

@@dondiego124 Sorry thats what I was trying to say, electricians get fiber certified and get paid double to do the same job. They can't get fiber installers because they aren't willing to pay what it costs, they are trying to cheep out.

@qjtvaddict

Жыл бұрын

That’s Uber eats money!!!!!

@followerofjesuschrist.

Жыл бұрын

"From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:38-39

@laserbeamchaser

Жыл бұрын

its union vs contractors the end.

Got AT&T Fiber last year and its been amazing. Not ONE drop or service interruption the entire year. Haven't had to touch the modem once. It just works. I really hope they build out the infrastructure for everyone to get on fiber over the old cable/DSL systems. I have 1gig and that's more than enough for me but I'm seeing ISPs releasing 5/10gig lines for home users, crazy.

@Danman1972

Жыл бұрын

Its cheaper than copper to put glass in the ground. Its happening.... I know many rural companies have it.

@_gungrave_6802

Жыл бұрын

5 to 10 gig lines aren't crazy at all when you consider that those are preferred for people who stream a lot or have large families. There are also internet pirates who use high bandwidth lines like that because they download a lot of files obviously while using a VPN especially if their ISP is comcast.

@eddyawesomes

Жыл бұрын

Wait till they raise your price almost double when the instruction period is over. I had fiber for $50 for a year and. A half and then raised it to $90 with no notice. They were the only fiber option since municipalities can't build their own fiber like in Europe.

@donnewton7858

Жыл бұрын

@@_gungrave_6802 You sound like you speak from experience. Pirate much?

@michaelf.2449

Жыл бұрын

@@_gungrave_6802 5 gig is absolutely crazy lol literally no average home user is even close to fully using a gig let alone 5

Just started my telecommunications job. It’s awesome seeing people’s reaction to seeing us install fiber.

@adamotak5145

6 ай бұрын

what certifications do you need to get a telecommunication job?

@zenko247

2 ай бұрын

I was Manufacturing/ installing fibre cable in the UK from the 1980s before most people knew it was a thing😁

Here in Singapore, we’ve had fibre since like the 2010s. Almost everyone here uses fibre. It helps that the fibre optic cables were laid by the Gov, unlike the US where the telco is in charge of laying the fibre optic cables.

@cyclopentadiol2923

Жыл бұрын

Singapore square kilometers: 728.6 United States square kilometers: 9,384,000,000 Yeah, it's totally just a matter of the government vs private business...smh

@nemesiszz

Жыл бұрын

Singapore is rich as well as small easy to install anything fast.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

The distance from New York to Las Angeles is greater than the distance from New York to Ireland. Most people do not understand the scale of the US.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

@@nemesiszz The US is extremely large.

@vedantsingh_

Жыл бұрын

@@cyclopentadiol2923 india has also had Fiber for nearly a decade with extensive coverage…

The main reason why Americans are not fully on fiber is just like a lot of other issue the US have, "free market", money first, people come second ( from the bottom up ) ... if The US can learn a thing or two from other countries like Sweden, the USA can be much better

@justinbrah627

Жыл бұрын

The US has more fiber to the home than Sweden has homes. US has more fiber to the home than any other Western country. Sit your ass down.

@doujinflip

Жыл бұрын

A late-stage "Free Market" just means the freedom of incumbent strongmen to eradicate competition, form cartels, and fix prices.

@tuckerbugeater

Жыл бұрын

@@doujinflip So a more powerful government will fix this?

@larrybuchannan186

Жыл бұрын

Technologically? Let's say you are from Sweden In top 10 biggest tech companies of the world, USA has 5 while Sweden has zero The score is 5-0 in favor of USA Sweden is a tiny irrelevan bakwate lake. If we were to learn from Sweden, then we would be a technological embarasment like Sweden with literally zero companies in the top 10. Thankfully we don't follow Sweden.

@davidmontroy3408

Жыл бұрын

The US covers 3,717,792 square miles, Sweden covers 173,860 square miles. Geography has a lot to do with limits of implementing infrastructure too. Not just money grubbing "free market". Same holds true for things like public transit systems.

"With fiber optic internet you can get speeds up to 2 Gbps". Meanwhile in sweden we've had 10 Gbps available for private households with fiber connection since 2018.

@danielfields4078

Жыл бұрын

Lucky

@HumbertoPatricio

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Portugal although it's expensive. I have a very close friend who worked for Microsoft Sweden at 2005, at those times and when he came back to Portugal on holidays we used to compare the services between our two countries and also other EU member states... and as I can remember Sweden always had the fastest and cheapest service in Europe by far!! Ericsson Communications always placed your country in the vanguard I should say... ;) only the Japanese had something similar. Nowadays, here in Portugal 500Mbs is the norm because its the cheapest solution offered by operators, although I see tendency to be updated to 1Gbs along this year... Greetings from Portugal

@mightymoo4018

Жыл бұрын

We get it, Sweden rocks. bla bla bla

@lenholt7419

Жыл бұрын

You know I heard they have Chocolate in Sweden. Fiber in the US has been around for over 50 years. Yes you can get 10GB to your house, IF you're willing to shell out the dollars. Smart move for Sweden to place 10GB to the house for future proofing. I would guess that an individual home in Sweden does not fully utilize that capacity.

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

Wow, a small country has fast internet go figure

In brazil fiber is everywhere. They are even installing it in rural areas where i thought there would only have satellite internet. Mind blowing.

@fancyIOP

Жыл бұрын

It’s nice, they are bridging the gap. If I may ask, what speeds are you on?.

@theforester_

Жыл бұрын

@@fancyIOP 100 mb. Download and upload. Isnt that fast but its pretty decent for what i pay which is around 100 real, same as 20 dollars.

@fancyIOP

Жыл бұрын

@@theforester_ wow now that’s affordable🔥… it’s like R330 in South African money. In SA the minimum price of 100Mbps is R897(R$272.50 or $52.71). You guys have some cheap fibre internet there, wow I envy your prices. Maybe our prices will fall once the connection is national.

@moctezumaaleg2008

Жыл бұрын

@@theforester_ Same in Mexico but more like $14 dollars a Month

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

@@theforester_ The US as a whole is higher internet speeds than Brazil. The US is an enormous place with a spread out population.

I saw the title of the video and was like oh this must be from 2001.

Have Verizon FIOS fiber in NYC and it's the best internet service I've ever used. Extremely fast and extremely reliable. Super low ping and hardly any packet loss ever.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Easy for NYC not so easy for many other areas but the US will get there at some point.

Now there are more and more people work from home, reliable high speed internet is becoming an essential need. For online applications, video streaming, all need broadband that does not drop in speed when everyone in the city are online at the same time. Fiber is the best in keeping the speed. I have fiber, and I got a look at what it is in technology -- I was digging in my backyard and my shovel hit the fiber. It is hard plastic outside and inside looks like clear hard plastic. I only cut the outside skin of the fiber and I quickly covered it up. Internet is work, ordering food, entertainment ... all came through that plastic wire.

@lionsnetonu

Жыл бұрын

🤣 You have admitted to damaging fiber cable on the internet, now pay the damages.

A little overlooked fiber revolution that's happening right now, thanks a lot for this video. Very well delivered 🙂

@ChickenMcThiccken

Жыл бұрын

oh you mean; gutting the streets and replacing the copper with fiber? fine. 5g is faster. 6g you don't even wanna know . it will make fiber look like dial up.

@MrOndra112

Жыл бұрын

​@@ChickenMcThiccken well, 6G is not even a fixed standard yet and as far as I am concerned, it will be still fiber-based, won't be...

@ChickenMcThiccken

Жыл бұрын

@@MrOndra112 yes; but no antennas

"80% of the cost is in installation" "eventually fiber networks are going to be needed everywhere" gee.. its almost as if we told they gave these interviews in 1990. so what did we do? we gave the tel-cos a couple hundred billion dollars, and said "go do it" yet here we are, decades later, and we still don't have a nationwide fiber network because of the greed of private corporations to just pocket the money, and then buyback stock shares to make their bottom line and EPS look better...

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Without private corporations you would have no internet.

It isn't just bandwidth that makes fibre attractive. It is also its ability to transmit long distances without repeaters, 1000's of miles. A repeater needs power, so requires undersea cables carry electrical power along with the fibre.

@AdventureOften

Жыл бұрын

Terrestrial fiber needs amplification about every 80km, with special Raman amplification you can reach upwards of 160km between amps.

@JerryMuthafukinJ

Жыл бұрын

It is also the amount of issues you have with fiber. There is practically none compared to Coax plant

@abaoaqu1333

Жыл бұрын

This is not accurate, even with Fiber signal degrades after a certain distance and needs to be amplified whether passively or actively.

@scottfranco1962

Жыл бұрын

@@abaoaqu1333 RA = Read Again. Nobody claimed that fibre could go an indefinite distance.

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

@@scottfranco1962 Ok. but you did say 1000s of miles and that isn't happening. Not only do you have distance loss, you have splice losses to add as well. Also, you can't get a straight run back to the main site which usually doubles the length in a straight run. But typically a large city doesn't need more than 2-3 main sites. The advantage is OPEX due to not needing electricity.

Fiber to the home is an absolute game changer. I have had Fiber at home for 5 years. It hasn't gone down once. During the Texas Winter storm I didn't have electricity for a week....but my fiber was lit! 2GB SYMMETRICAL is mind blowing. Everything happens instantly, and cloud based backups are almost as fast as a local backup. Of course in order to utilize the full capacity, one needs to update to a multi gigabit home network.

@tayl0r612

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, the cable network was working during the winter storm too :P my internet was up the whole time even though I only had power 5-10% of the time.

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

where do you live?

@austinformedude

Жыл бұрын

@@squidwardo7074 Austin, TX

@loytowse8140

Жыл бұрын

How did you power your modem with no power?

@austinformedude

Жыл бұрын

@@loytowse8140 I have a whole home backup generator system :) But grid was totally down.

Canada got in to fiber in the 70s. Phone was fiber in the 90s and high speed internet over 10 yrs now.

I have fiber but it didn't work like advertised. It turned out that the box that was connected to the fiber was installed incorrectly. But after it was done again I now have clean, stable, super fast internet. Great for increasing my influence over this world.

@orangejjay

Ай бұрын

Alrighty. You're a year in or so, yeah? How's it going? How's the price and speed compare to what you had before?

Fiber needs to be the goal for any major ISP in the next 3 years, there is absolutely no reason fiber should not be nationwide. For example monopolies like Cox communications here in Arizona have little to no competition in Phoenix and other metro cities (Lumen/CenturyLink use DSL for 99% of their network and cap out at 50mbps down and 10mbps up)

@MrDanielamaral

Жыл бұрын

I have fiber optic at my home for more than 6 years wich internet over 500mb. I live in Portugal and fiber is nationally widespread!

@jimmaag4274

Жыл бұрын

I have CenturyLink DSL and am lucky to get 1.2mbps. It's hell.

@slowanddeliberate6893

Жыл бұрын

Cable internet is second best to fibre optic, but cable internet is trash and overpriced.

@jacobzindel987

Жыл бұрын

@@slowanddeliberate6893 most "cable" internet is actually cabel/Fibre hybrid plant.

@cristianion2056

Жыл бұрын

Here in Romania for 5dollars per month I got 500mbs. For 8dolars i got 1giga. And now 1company promise 10giga for 12dollars

I've been using Airtel FTH (fibre-to-home) in India 🇮🇳 since at least 4 years. its reliability is unmatched. And the downtime is minimal.

@Nid69

Жыл бұрын

I agree, and we get more speed than promised

@ozicryptoG

Жыл бұрын

India is better than the US. Better, faster, more interesting, better food, ... better internet. Better.

@ozicryptoG

Жыл бұрын

Not as good as Australia.

@SandyMachoManRavage

Жыл бұрын

@@ozicryptoG Except hygiene.

@huskydogable

Жыл бұрын

​@@ozicryptoG Tell that to the dalits!

Very nice video, I have worked as a Fiber Technician for more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, Working in the commercial building sector. I have been part of projects from almost every big Tech company in silicon valley. it has been a very cool journey. Someone in the comments below said something about not being paid enough for the work we do and i have to agree with that but the way to make a little bit more money is by working for a company that are part of the union such as the IBEW.

In Rwanda we have fiber internet and they charge us around $25-$40 depending with the package and it have helped alot

@fancyIOP

Жыл бұрын

So at $25 it starts at which speeds? And $40 being which ones?.

Thank you Corning for this major advance in human development. I was at GTE in software when the ISDN had not yet been "rolled out". The 1st area code pilot project was in Tampa, FL. The phone company was required by the government to allow fiber on it's phone network polls, install it, and then be charged a few cents per mile for doing so. The phone companies were on a copper-wire network. Interestingly, it was cable tv that spurred the development of fiber, while telco further developed wireless. It is just miraculous to see this quantum leap forward.

@mernkanthri3941

Жыл бұрын

In India at my Village we got Power, Landline telephone just 17 year back. Now we have Fiber optics internet . Good 4g connection

@ChickenMcThiccken

Жыл бұрын

its a gift and a curse

@NazriB

Жыл бұрын

Lies again? Faster StarHub

@Dusty2455433

5 күн бұрын

@@mernkanthri3941 it's probably Corning fiber lmao

Is fiber a "new thing" in America? Here (Sweden) everyone has it! I mean, even old people have it, to read the news, and we have it in summerhouses and stuff. Our government decided to give every swede the possibility to get fiber in 1999! And since updates are made by changing base stations, more or less everyone have real highspeed broadband today!

@monkeyboy600

Жыл бұрын

No it's not new, just not widespread

@WhoDatGuyJ

Жыл бұрын

South Korea has also had widespread fiber optic internet for years now

@ThisIS_Insane

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the back scratching and the payoffs in this country are stifling expansion and even some development. In many, many areas of business and industry, the deals and the favors are killing this democratic republic a penny at a time. Everyone of them thinks they are getting ahead, but we will all pay in the end, just like the way they keep supporting corrupt and connected politicians, using the dumbest arguments in history...

@AvoidTheCadaver

Жыл бұрын

When I lived in the UK in the mid 2000s high speed Fibre was rolling out, and it was cheap (relatively speaking for back then). One advantage Europe has is a large population in a small concentrated area, making it quite cheap to deploy and for it to reach the majority of the population

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

Everyone that lives in a major city has fiber. Thing about Sweden though is it is the same size as my entire state. Don't forget that part

Thank you Colonel Corso for your contribution to an honest valuation and sharing of this technology. Look where it's gone 75 years on.

An excellent story. As a simple "end user" our household story is, we just switched to a fiber based internet service via a company called Sparklight (in Longview, TX). In addition, and this is CRUCIAL, we upgraded our wifi to a mess network. Now, our internet speeds are amazing! Information pops up immediately on websites. 4K videos play with no interruptions via web based TV services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and others. It's night and day compared to our former coax based cable company service. Ironically, the last, short connection between our fiber modem and the computer in our home office, is a copper CAT-6 cable!?! Yet, even that connection is MUCH faster due to the initial fiber service. As more and more Americans do get connected in what they call "the last mile." by fiber, I believe it will be a tsunami effect of consumers hooking up where available.

@Laminar-Flow

7 ай бұрын

Mesh networks are great, I’d also say getting WiFi 6 router/s if you have mostly modern devices is a great call with fiber. Even with 1 WiFi 6 router in a ~4,000 sq foot house my desktop gets 500-600 megabytes per second up and down, no Ethernet Cat 6 supports 10 GBPS @ 250 mHz…. So luckily, it’s highly unlikely you have the bandwidth to maximize its throughput speeds

They talking like fiber is available to everyone when it isn't even close. And it's not just rural communities. I live in a major metropolitain area and fiber isn't even available in my neighborhood, nor the one down the street, nor the one beside that. Once again policy is either looking out for the super poor or the super rich and leaving us in the middle out here ... like always.

@lordhosk

Жыл бұрын

Exactly "the adoption of fiber in the US has been very slow" BECAUSE THE AVAILABILITY IS SLOW everywhere its available people adopt it instantly! At our old house they ran fiber at the road in 2014, when we moved in 2018 AT&T was still saying "not enough demand to hook up to houses" every time we called. They ran lines in front of our new house this spring, we've called twice now and they say "its not ready for deployment yet"

@vegahusadard2355

Жыл бұрын

@@lordhosk becaus its not fiber optic cable’s

@robnelson6545

Жыл бұрын

We have the same issue. I think they skip your house if your wiring goes underground or is too far from their switches. Hopefully they’ll get it out to us but not holding my breath. 100mbps cable internet isn’t too bad though it’s just upload speed isn’t great.

@dl1083

Жыл бұрын

boohoo :(

@ThisIS_Insane

Жыл бұрын

@@lordhosk I got put on a list 8 years ago in Hot Springs Village, and they still have said NOTHING. Suddenlink/OPTIMUM is the only game in town right now. Unless you want 6Mbps DSL, that is...

I would switch to fiber in a heartbeat if it was offered, but I’m limited due to to current providers in my area.

@planetaryevolution4853

Жыл бұрын

ikr

@Jacob-Simonsen

Жыл бұрын

I'm not using all of my 10gbit if you want some

The situation in the US is very similar to the one we have here in Brazil. Here, people also associate TV with cable Internet, at least in the major cities. Fiber is becoming popular, especially with regional providers. Some companies, such as Claro (América Móvil), lie when they advertise fiber internet, when in reality fiber does not reach people's homes.

@BattousaiHBr

Жыл бұрын

hey fellow brazilian, im an engineer at an ISP in Rio and i have to disagree that the situation here is similar to the US. if there is anything similar is that the big players (Claro, Vivo, Tim...) offer terrible customer support and will lie and screw you over at any given opportunity with hidden or undisclosed fees that you never asked for. but other than that, our situation is much different from theirs (for the better i'd say). we actually have tons of competition here. if you live in an urban area you likely have the option to choose from several different ISPs, and if you threaten your current provider with cancelling and getting a new one you will almost always get a massive deal for the next 1 year contract (i do this every year). at our ISP we deliver FTTH at the central metropolitan area and have hundreds of customers. over the whole state we have dozens of corporate and organization clients with big contracts, that could pick and choose from many different providers were they to offer a better price.

@Gadottinho

Жыл бұрын

@@BattousaiHBr yeah, and in the rural areas too and with fibre as well

@sanrezende

10 ай бұрын

I just saw a news that says that 66% of Brazilian broadband is fiber optic. And 44% of that are from local providers. (Tecnoblog) And Claro is a problem with 23,2% of marketshare in broadband, but only 2,6% of marketshare in fiber optic.

@hashim64

9 ай бұрын

@@sanrezende fiber optic internet from data centre connect satellite high broadband as repeater

@hashim64

9 ай бұрын

data centre with huge satellite dish

In South Africa🇿🇦 they started pushing to under serviced areas since late 2019 early 2020 and now companies are seeing that more people want fibre. Next month I will be connected and cancelling my kak 5G. I just can’t wait.

This made me search trough my mails. I got Fiber back in 2012 and payed 40$ for 30/30Mbit now i have 1/1Gbit and pay the same. Go' technology!🔥

@chd176

Жыл бұрын

paid*

@achosenone44

Жыл бұрын

yep fireeeeeeeee it will be this time )

Yeah but here’s a bigger question…who is going to install all this fiber? Last I checked the working conditions for installers are minimum, pay is laughable, and hours are crazy long (former cable installer talking from experience). Who is installing all these cables 🤷🏾‍♂️?

@flagmichael

Жыл бұрын

People who want money to feed their family (who they may rarely see). The skills for the running part are minimal; termination and testing... not so much.

@James-vj5hz

Жыл бұрын

@@flagmichael The installations are mostly low quality. But that's definitely reflected by the pay most people are receiving.

@sandystripesrealestate234

Жыл бұрын

Mexicens can instaöö easyJet Fiberglas for cheap Money but you habe to let the. In the usa

I'm a fiber splicer we use specialized equipment to fuse two fibers together. I wish people would cover it more because it's a really cool industry.

@mercynamikoye9084

Жыл бұрын

As an ISP manager it really is.

@tannermcdaniel7045

Жыл бұрын

@Shoota 305 you don't need certs for it just apply at a shop that'll teach you. Pay is good from $25 to $75/hr if you're a towertech + fiber splicer

@tannermcdaniel7045

Жыл бұрын

@Shoota 305 if you live in Washington I can hook you up with a job that will pay for bicsi. We have an entire learning center.

The animation of light reflecting on the outer glass layer should be sinusoidal - the two layers actually melt together so the difference in diopter (how much the light bends when it enters the material at an angle) reflects the light back. This is slightly more complicated since the two layers form a wave guide but changing the graphic from the triangular wave to a sinusoidal (longer, also) gives a better description. The race for fiber optics started when it was proven that glass was transparent to light and the impurities were responsible for the attenuation. Corning - then a small company in NY - found the solution: evaporate the glass and deposit it into a rod then doing it with different diopter glasses to create the wave guide. The thing about fiber optics is, like the guy said, the speed is limitted by the electronics on the tips and not by the glass itself. There's even an optical amplifier that requires no light-to-electricity conversion to work.

Great video and information as usual! 👍🏿

I live in Saudi Arabia and Fiber Optic was a thing that I could purchase as an internet cable since 2011 and since then I never used anything but this and it's amazing indeed! It changed how I use and see internet forever no more unregular internet speeds or losing the internet randomly etc. and most of my friends in the US tell me how the internet in most parts in there still didn't adapt to the fiber optic for issues like how it would effect the taxes or how the cables and system is still using the old methods or how companies take monopoly on certain parts of the cities! It's sad to me because the people of the US should be the first people to benefit from this and most my friends there I knew for many years always have issues with the internet speeds and cutting out glad to see how the fiber optic starting to catch up in the normal US citizen life it should been a thing since a decade but it's better to come late than never!

@lantrick

Жыл бұрын

I live in the US and have hd Fiberoptic internet delivery for 30 years.

@EridanusYT

Жыл бұрын

@@lantrick So you had it since 1991 which is around the year I was born that's impressive but may I ask which state you used to live in when you first got it and how come you were able to get it when the internet culture back then was still slow and growing and didn't need much internet speed at least not for a normal consumer like today? I only ask because being a 1990 kid who saw how technology grew and become part of our lives these stuff always amuse me in a way and thanks for replying.

@larrybuchannan186

Жыл бұрын

@@EridanusYT UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden etc are all behind USA at internet speed Don't believe me? "Look up "list of countries with internet speeds' and open the wikipedia look Saudi arabia is alsobehind usa

@larrybuchannan186

Жыл бұрын

@@GameboyAdvance6969 Internet was invented by USA not UK And almost all of the Internet companies are US companies while UK doesn't have a single company on the internet Uk is a technological embarasment compared to america

@EridanusYT

Жыл бұрын

​@@GameboyAdvance6969 First of all I didn't act or state that Saudi invented the fiber optic if anything I even said USA for having the silicon valley and the ones who brought Internet to the world should reap the benefits before any other country! I don't know why you being stand offish and a bit judgmental in the way you talking about the Middle East with a close minded way of thinking and just label it "backwards" plus why you blame the west for anything that may or may not happen in other regions I don't support such thinking and won't make people solve their issues and advance if they have that victim mentality and I don't think what you said is true at all the reason is I come from the city where all the oil come from and people from ALL AROUND THE WORLD mostly USA and EU live in here have kids work for their whole life so the living standards and everything you would find in USA other than alcohol or pork is provided in here for both locals and expats who live in my city! I think you should take what I said with an open mind and be less judgmental and chill a bit I'm too old for this kid's drama or trolling online (if that's what u seeking out of this) at the end of the day you could have any opinions you want on any matter or country or race but don't put words in my mouth or assume my intentions behind my words!

They've been talking about this since 25 years ago. I remember over 20 years ago when my neighbor had fiber but yet it wasn't allowed on my street. Guess what, I still like this!!

I love such high quality professionally made videos.

Problem with these types of stories is the use of analysts and trade groups that are tied to the industry, they neglect he fact that companies are offering fiber to the home. People want it and could use it, but they're at the mercy of the largest corporations who have not delivered and attempt to block municipal implementation.

@nigratruo

Жыл бұрын

not attempt to block municipal implementation. They DID block it, all efforts have stalled, competition was squashed by the monopoly, that is why monopolies are so bad: They use their power to block competition.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

People are just making things up.

Why does Comcast, who owns CNBC, expand fiber to more cities and suburbs?

@mba2ceo

Жыл бұрын

The VID is a LIE. My opinion

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a spare trillion to give them?

@bigrunts9768

Жыл бұрын

@@bighands69 ISPs all over the world dont have billions yet they have fiber. Comcast been around for decades

Here in South Africa everyone I know (in an urban area) uses fibre at home and work/school. Its roll-out has been life-changing. Typically we pay 40 dollars a month.

I'm glad I have a few fiber optic ISPs for my city in the USA. I switched from cable to fiber in 2021.

While I think we all know that wireless has its issues, which wasn't really touched on in this piece, let's focus on the difference between what coax gets you versus a fiber connection (and I am on a 1 Gb/s symmetrical fiber connection here in the USA for ~$60/mo, which is much cheaper than the coax service in my area that is inferior to this): 1. Raw speed - I actually do need the upstream. Many others may need this for things like backing up their computers to the cloud and remotely monitoring home security cameras. Cable modem can be fairly fast on the downloads, but sucks on uploads. When you do need it, it is not there just like the people who are not really your friends. 2. Latency and jitter - Cable modems can easily add 7 - 30ms of latency and can have lots of jitter as you share the connection with your neighbors. As we all use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and video conferencing apps, this leads to delays causing people to talk over each other excessively due to the poor quality of service as opposed to it just being rude people on the line and breakup of voice and video, which at best is annoying and worse unusable and it happens ALL OF THE TIME with cable modems, greatly harming the quality of work from home. In contrast my current symmetrical 1 Gb/s fiber connection has less than 1 ms of latency and less than 1 ms of jitter. I can see when I am doing the same things over this fiber connection, at least the other people who are also on fiber and are either wired in or have their home Wi-Fi setup properly, the connection is perfect, no delay, no breakup of voice or video. It is really clear who is also on fiber (and seeing I remotely communicate with the same people all the time, I know who has what to validate this) and who is on a cable modem. In the remote worker world where you may interview over your home Internet connection, the people with fiber have a clear leg up on the people who don't just due to the potential employer can see, hear, and understand the person on a fiber connection where often the person on a cable modem they can't or key things said are lost. 3. Packet loss - An interesting thing I came across a few years back was a kernel patch that broke TCP fast re-transmits on a server on the other side of the country from where I am at in a way where it really impacted these long distance transmissions for large data transmissions I was doing for work. On a cable modem, the problem would be triggered right away. On a fiber connection, the problem simply would not happen. I looked at the data stream with a packet sniffer and validated what was going on. The fiber link simply did not randomly lose a single packet and so there were 0 TCP fast re-transmits while the coax link dropped packets like mad and this is even with the cable modem directly wired in, no splitters, only an attenuator because the signal would be too strong for the cable modem as the cable provider has to bump up signal strength to go through people's crappy splitters and open ports bringing noise into the system, especially on the 700 MHz band used by the cable modems that is also used by 4G cellular service. (On my cable modem back when I could only get cable modem service in my area, I could see tonnes of packet loss in this 700 MHz band on those channels. It came in bursts, probably as one of my neighbors sat next to an open coax port in their home with their cell phone or maybe an old coax wire that wasn't up to snuff.) Packet loss also contributes to the poor quality of service discussed in #2. 4. Service outages - When I was on cable modem service, it regularly went out, even though I took everything off and just had the coax go straight into the cable modem, no splitters, just the right sized attenuator needed when not using a splitter. When the power went out, the cable modem service went out. I had the electronics in question on backup power, so they still had their power lights on, but the cable modem just wasn't receiving a signal anymore because the box down the street the coax cable connected to that the telco controlled did not have backup power. With my current fiber service, earlier this year for example a huge, record smashing wind storm knocked out power for an extended time. My fiber Internet service worked perfectly the whole time as I ran my equipment off of backup power. As the fiber goes straight to the CO (central office) as fiber has the reach coax does not have, the ISP was able to keep their equipment powered reliably from a central location. I even went by the CO at one point as I was doing stuff and could hear the backup generators running at the CO. In general the fiber service has been super reliable and just works. This was never the case with super finicky coax, no matter how hard I tried on my side to have the best possible experience. Those with splitters and coax running in all directions through their home must have a terrible time, even worse than my horrible experience with it. For example I have gone under homes to work on issues and have found rodents have chewed up the coax under the home. I think this is probably pretty common and this can ruin the experience around the neighborhood as coax is shared with your neighbors. This has got to cost the coax providers a fortune in service calls where my fiber service just works perfectly year after year, no service calls needed. So yeah, coax is an obsolete technology that did not serve America the way it needed to during the pandemic nor will it moving forward. If you want and these days need a quality connection that can serve your work from home needs, you really need to have fiber to the home. There is not much else that can really compete with this in most cases. The main exception I can think of is if you live in a high rise building, there is the possibility of doing point to point wireless between tall buildings at high frequencies (such as 60 GHz) and this can work out well. Businesses can get lower frequency fixed wireless as say a lower speed backup connection, though beware of shared fixed wireless and VoIP as the two don't mix due to latency and jitter issues as well as potential high packet loss. Cellular is really not all that great and worse than cable modems, which are not really good enough. Starlink is more you don't have another option in your rural area.

@awarepenguin3376

Жыл бұрын

coax sucks!

@adamdastar

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I live in an area where comcast runs a monopoly and are the only internet providers. They set whatever price they want for their inferior service. Folks that live 1 block away from me have fiber internet that comes in from the pole. My house receives all its wiring from underground. The fiber company said they couldn’t run their cables underground and I would need to be close to the pole for me to even get service. Sucks that I have to deal with comcast.

@TheReal_ist

Жыл бұрын

Ya no ones reading that sorry bub.

@miked3723

Жыл бұрын

Let's address a few things here. 99.999998% of people will never use speeds faster then the slowest coax connection. It would cost billions to service those 0.000002% that need it.Irest my case.

@SaltAndVi

Жыл бұрын

@@TheReal_ist it was very insightful. Speak for yourself bub

Densely populated city or even country like Singapore is the best scenario for fiber optic deployment. The rate of return per mile on capital outlay is significantly higher than US vast remote rural landscape. 🤗🤗

Fiber internet went from "I'm only available in dense cities" to "I'm in your walls". Spectrum had a tight hold in my area and charged us $60 a month for 100mbp/s Frontier fiber showed up quickly during the pandemic and I'm now paying $45 for 500mbp/s. Had to upgrade my router to handle the new speeds.

More fiber please! America needs to compete.

If fiber actually competed with cable in many markets most Americans would switch, but it doesn't.

@gloriathomas3245

Жыл бұрын

Fiber Optic is already the backbone of the internet and it's what replaced Cable over a decade ago. SONET is the next big leap however it's expensive to deploy

@ChickenMcThiccken

Жыл бұрын

fiber tv?? oh great. another income stream to get fleeced

@Virt7_

Жыл бұрын

They are now in PA. Everyone’s switching. All of rural is getting fiber

@mrmotofy

Жыл бұрын

Yep Corporate GREED, no accountability of the funds paid out to them in grants and no real competition due to exclusive monopolies. As well as all the BS redtape in the last mile installation

@Virt7_

Жыл бұрын

@@mrmotofy not really. The funds in PA are being used now. 15 years with DSL and fiber is coming in a few months

Fiber has been around for decades, but the US is the slowest industrial country to fully implement it nationwide.

@mba2ceo

Жыл бұрын

this is TRUE - the VID is a LIE. My opinion

Wow - going by the title, this is an article I would've expected to see here in New Zealand over 10 years ago!

In the US it all comes down to the monopolization of telecommunications with almost no government oversight to protect customers. We pay the highest prices for mediocre service relative to the price. In my city there is a regional company deploying fiber in which I already reserved my installation 6 months ago. In the mean time Spectrum doubled our speed from 100Mbps to 200Mpbs for “free,” and just yesterday increased it to 300Mpbs for “free” again. It’s amazing what a little competition can do. Either the government needs to open up the rules to allow new ISPs to increase competition OR they need to regulate existing companies and force them to do what is needed and regulate pricing.

@larrybuchannan186

Жыл бұрын

US has higher internet speed than many western countries Look up 'list of countries with average internet speed' US is way higher than many other weste countries.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

You do not want more government interference in the marketplace.

were almost 100% done in sweden with fiber, got mine installed in 2003 :)

@Repz98

Жыл бұрын

What's your internet speed? Here in Norway, we have been late in getting Fiber. I just got mine recently, and it's 1000mbps up and down. and I wonder if those who got fiber early on, might have a slower fiber, not sure if true tho.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

I think people in the US just prefer cheaper cars, clothing, housing, food, energy, machines, tools and a higher standard of living. Median net household income in California is $70000 and in Sweden it is $38000. There are some areas of living in the US that are not up to Sweden's levels such as internet but I think most Americans would take that trade off. America will get there with its internet.

Discovered the internet but now lagging behind other countries in terms of infrastructure, speed, and cost of internet.

@ThisIS_Insane

Жыл бұрын

CORRUPTION+

@squidwardo7074

Жыл бұрын

The American way

@larrybuchannan186

Жыл бұрын

@@squidwardo7074 Sweden is a technlogical embarasment compared to America Software or Cell Phone or Smart phone or Latptop or Search engine - US has plenty of companies while Sweden doesn't even have one Sweden should learn from USA and learn how to create technologies Sweden is ajoke of the world.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

The US is not lagging and people need to stop believing certain media hype around issues. Trust me when I tell you that very few Americans would actually like living in other countries when they realize the differences and how wealthy life is in America.

You neglected to mention the fact that the US purchased fiber internet back in the 80's, and it was never delivered. Now we're buying it AGAIN, because nobody ever bothered to hold the telecom companies to account for the money they took without providing a finished product.

I can't believe that I live in an average residential neighborhood that is mostly working class.....and I get Gigabit upload/download, unmetered for $69/month because of AT&T fiber. This would've be unheard a decade or so ago.

@Drunken_Master

Жыл бұрын

It's around 50$ here in Serbia, including cable TV and landline.

I added fiber and my throughput has been incredible. I avoid prunes and can still get 400mbps downloads. It takes no time at all now to empty my buffer.

@louistournas120

4 ай бұрын

But for the internet, fiber to the home is rare. I think most people have DSL and coax cable modem in major cities. I think when you ask for over 100 Mbps service, that is when they do a fiber to the home connection instead of DSL. For coax cable, it is capable of 300 Mbps.

I already had cable in my home, and when time came for me to renew my contract, I wanted internet only, no TV. Cable TV company did not want me having only internet, so I canceled my contract and got Fibre. In Serbia, I have 500/100 Mb/s for 15€ per month.

I really like these well-put-together pieces. Informative pieces are the best pieces.

Fiber Optic is already the backbone of the county's internet. In fact Fiber is what replaced Cable Internet over a decade ago.

@singular9

Жыл бұрын

The majority of americans don't know this because they are still stuck on DLS internet from the 70's.

@Jacarroll417

Жыл бұрын

My internet is still delivered via Coax, so no it didnt replace Docsis cable internet. While cable providers use Fiber to the node, its still an RF based service and its all Coax from the node to the house. Still suffers from limited bandwidth especially on the upload side.

@j.r.a.inthacut8148

Жыл бұрын

How can it be the backbone if only 43 percent of consumers have it? I can speak first hand, it's not available where i live. Furthermore, i just moved about 5 miles and i can't even get access to cable internet!? Century Link DSL is the only thing available and it sucks...badly.

@Jacarroll417

Жыл бұрын

@@j.r.a.inthacut8148 By backbone he doesn't mean to the customers homes. The core of most if not all ISP's networks is Fiber. The backbone excludes the "Last mile" which is how the customer is connected. All major ISP's use Fiber across their network. In the case of Coax ISP's like Comcast the Fiber comes out to the neighborhood and converts to coax at the node. VDSL is normally Fiber to the node as well, unless you live next to the phone companies central office.

This is really eye opening. Always thought the US had extremely fast internet. My network provider is offering unlimited data at speeds of 200 mbps for 11 dollars per month.

@redditia3202

Жыл бұрын

Mine is 20-30 mbps for 30$ per month

@amitshah5097

Жыл бұрын

@@redditia3202 that is pricey. Atleast it's unlimited and not data capped.

@mba2ceo

Жыл бұрын

WHERE ? Inquiring minds want to know. ALL BS ?

@mba2ceo

Жыл бұрын

@@redditia3202 This I believes ... the rest is all LIES ?

@redditia3202

Жыл бұрын

@@amitshah5097 Yep I'm in Africa (Somalia)

I am getting fiber optics installed to my house next weekend from cox. Very excited. The representative said that it would be of no cost for the installation.

Well I'm glad I'm finally getting to get fiber installed in my neighborhood! We have a new fiber ISP come into town about a year ago and they're building out infrastructure across town. Just got a notice about a week ago that their crews will be working in our neighborhood installing services. We don't have a date yet, but I can't wait to get it installed! I'm getting rid of Comcast as soon as I can!

I live in Mexico city, I have had fiber optic connection for the last 4 years, it provides Cable TV, telephone and 80mb internet, its enough to support 8pc and 20 wireless devices. I really thought we were the second to last to get these services, I can't believe I was wrong.

@lantrick

Жыл бұрын

I live in the US and have hd Fiberoptic internet delivery for 30 years.

@Archchill

Жыл бұрын

@@lantrick yeah in very limited areas. We have so much work to do (as I’m sure Mexico does too).

@JJFlores197

Жыл бұрын

There are plenty of areas in Mexico that have sub-standard internet as well. My family lives near Zamora, Mich. and they constantly get flyers from Telmex advertising their fiber internet (Infinitum) service but its only available in certain parts of the town. They happen to be outside of their fiber footprint so they can only get crappy DSL service from them. They have an alternative, Megacable which offers a 100 Mbps connection. Not bad.

computer networking is super fascinating 🙂 i love studying it and trying to wrap my mind around how the internet really works

Australia was going to rollout nation-wide fibre to the premises in 2007 ... unfortunately the government changed in 2013 and they killed the project, instead rolling out fibre to the node, which was finished in around 2021. They are now gradually spending even more money extending the FTTP footprint.

I live in a rural area and the only isp available is the local phone company. I have been hoping one of the top tier networks would expand to our area for better network latency

Its indeed ridiculous how much it costs for internet connection here in the US. And the prices are criminal. Having grown up in a country served with fast fiber networks at low loow prices, I can agree with everyone who said the greedy corporations & too much politics is to blame

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

The distance from New York to Los Angeles is greater than the distance from New York to Ireland. The US is an extremely large place and they will get there with fibre optics. In the meantime the US has no shortages of energy or food which many other places are going to have.

The hurdles to municipal run fiber are such B.S. They’re usually the cheapest and fastest _and_ tend to be profitable. Edit: Not to mention, with all the places I’ve moved to, a majority of the times I saw great competitive prices and customer service from Comcast was in areas that offered fiber as an alternative. It’s a real threat to their monopolistic hold (thanks to how coax is setup).

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

Our competitor has FTTH in areas we don't. We offer fair pricing, better services, better technicians and faster repair times. They don't impact us much. People that change ISPs for a dollar a month savings aren't worth keeping. IDK about in Comcast areas but we overbuild the cable plant with fiber anyway. Turn it on and slowly migrate the customers over. There back end platform is the same and if they pay for the same internet speeds they had on cable, they don't notice any difference anyway.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Sorry but it is very expensive to put the cable into the homes and overcome the last mile. Many homes are not the same and do not have easy access ports. If you already have a cable connection that makes the issue of feeding to the home easier but it does not overcome the issue of the building not having good containment for new cables being added.

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

@@bighands69 Not sure what you are getting at. I never said anything was cheap because it isn't. People that want fiber for the sake of wanting fiber think that it is cheap as they would like it to be with their imagination. Almost every home has coax, but if they need fiber, they run it to the house and coil it up outside. The tech comes and attaches a fiber to the side of the house and drills into a central location and everything else is wireless, the TV boxes, the phone, everything. This way you don't need fiber to every room. I get speeds from 350 to 500 on wifi everywhere in my house and 200mbs in the back yard. Back in the day, we ran fiber to the house and then convert it to phone, data, and cable on the outside of the house and connect to the existing wiring. That was 2900 per house in 1999. Now, drill a hole and install a plug for the fiber and then plug in the wifi gateway and you are done. In my area, once the people using old equipment are upgraded to a single gateway the signal will be changed to get 1.5gig down and 500mb up for starters and then it will increase to symmetrical 1.5gig. all over cable. On pure fiber you can get 8gig/8gig but that speed is to show they are the fastest, not that anybody NEEDS it.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

@@Todd.T Everything hinges on the area and how expensive it would be. If a dwelling has good cable containment then new fibre cables can be feed in but if the containment is already full up with cables there will be no new cables installed. Many properties may have sealed cable installations making it impossible. The issue with this is the varying degrees of complexity with installation.

I installed at least 2 miles of fiber cabling in Schools & Hospitals. It is truly a magical technology

AT&T will be installing fiber internet at our house in a few days. I'm super excited!

In the US the key take away is the telecommunications contracts in place that limit competition and choice in most medium to low density areas. I'm a IT professional and work with datacenter fiber a lot and it's 100% the way to go. However, for homes, telecommunications companies are the issue in most cases. They aren't willing to build large fiber networks with low subscriber density. Starlink is way more important than the guy in the video is stating. More important is that Starlink v2 will be a massive improvement in both throughput and cost to orbit. Some of the costs that he mentioned are early numbers. Today all Starlink satellites are launched on reused boosters which greatly reduces costs. Starlink v2 will us starship, which is a fully reusable rocket so only the fuel costs are not recoverable. Starlink will ultimately be the largest single network in the future and likely eclipse fiber in every way.... Speed of deployment, flexibility and over all reach. It will allow highspeed data transfer between the Earth, Moon, and Mars.

@keithsummers1889

Жыл бұрын

You are right about Starlink -- more important that this "government subsidy promo" is willing to admit. Not sure that it will rival fiber throughput -- but it is significant.

@awarepenguin3376

Жыл бұрын

Starlink will never ever beat fiber solutions when it comes to latency nor will it ever scale out to multigig speeds. Starlink is good for what it is. No need to bring it up in a conversation of Fiber.

@keithsummers1889

Жыл бұрын

@@awarepenguin3376 I use to work at GTE and United telephone. And then I worked for Cellular One in Orlando. I would never thought that back in 1986 those complicated cell phones would ever rival the simplicity and reliability of land lines...

@doujinflip

Жыл бұрын

We still rely on landlines, and we still need more of it. Cell and WiFi are relatively short extensions of what its landlines haul. The only places I know that have to hop towers with directed microwave radios are areas where there's a local problem with snipping and stealing the physical cables.

@plastikman5889

Жыл бұрын

@@awarepenguin3376 not a single person in the US needs a multi gig network connection, let alone fiber to the home. there are far cheaper option to bring at least 100mb internet to rural areas. this obsession of fiber to the home is silly when most modern copper systems to the home can support well over gigabit connections. most of the back bone infrastructure is already fiber anyways.

I like how everyone knows corning as the company that makes the gorilla glass of iphones but they made it for Samsung first. Apple initially refused to use it and eventually gave in. Apples first 4 iPhones used regular glass. Plus Corning is a huge company and really old. They make glass for everything Including labs. They are a very old company.

@hectorcardenas2171

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like that corning’s a fuckn monopoly.

@reginaldpasao8390

Жыл бұрын

Not really. Just a company that does products and services very well

@tolazytothinkofanamd2351

Жыл бұрын

@@hectorcardenas2171 How so? Sure it controls 73% of the smartphone glass market but the overall glass market it controls only 45%. The other 55% is mostly 4 Asian brands and one Irish brand. It's the market leader not a monopoly. Like how Coke controls about 40% of the soda market. It's the market leader but not monopoly. Apple initially refused to only use the glass because they wanted something cheaper but once Samsung started running ads like , made with Corning gorilla glass and taking shares apple went to Corning and became it's second biggest customer. There is no bad blood between both brands. After that Samsung stopped running those ads since both used Corning.

A carrier tried to talk me into fiber optic and would install optic lines in my house but wouldn’t of done me any good since our area only had coax ran to homes which means my fiber optic would still only be as fast as the coax speeds. I think this is common in most areas.

My friend in Denmark uses fiber optic internet. He has an extremely fast connection with zero latency. He claims to pay less than I do for 12 mbps broadband. The USA is way behind other countries when it comes to fast reliable internet.

Geez its embarassing seeing US lag behind so much in this important sector and its coming from a person who is in developing world, i got fiber like 6 years ago to my house free of cost from my internet provider now almost all the internet comes with fiber in India (at least in citys) rite now i am paying like 9$ for 100 Mbps unlimited plan

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

US is ranked very high speed indexes. The idea that the US is slow is not even close to being true. Many of the countries that present their data tend to leave out rural areas where the US tends to cover them. Not every country does that but the vast majority do. People cannot expect to live in the middle of texas and get the same speeds as New York City.

Mississippi has increased leaps and bounds in the last few years in fiber availability to rural areas. A recent law was removed preventing local utility providers from providing internet access. With the big companies such as ATT, Comcast and the like they never found it beneficial to them to provide access to rural areas. Now the local power companies are laying down hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber to underserved areas. Parents and me back in high school living with them was limited to satellite internet where we only got maybe 5Mbps, now they have symmetric gigabit fiber. Now if only we can pull down all those really unsightly bundles of phone line ATT has up that they never maintain and transition to phone over fiber.

@misterlexx2721

10 ай бұрын

Old copper wires, eh. Out in rural Canada. Thank Elon for Starlink. Not as fast as fiber but 8mbps to over 300mbps is dramatic improvement. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😅😅😅

As someone who installs internet and telephone wires for a living I can tell you fiber is a little harder to install than copper. Fiber is heavier, its more fragile/occasionally breaks and you need expensive equipment to make the final connection/test the final connection. Connecting fiber is not as simple as plugging it into a socket you often have to melt two strands of fiber together or use special epoxies. You also must not look directly at a strand of fiber when its powered because even though you can't see the laser light coming out of the fiber it can still blind you. However fiber does have some major advantages a fiber cable can handle much more bandwidth, much less energy loss and its a much faster light speed connection. Single mode fiber can hold so much bandwidth that no device known to man can overload it. The copper wires we run need a signal boost after hundreds of feet but a fiber line can go many miles without a signal boost. Given all these advantages I'm suprised we haven't found a way to make fiber more affordable. I do get paid well to install fiber but that is because I'm a member of the IBEW (electrician union).

@4paapii

Жыл бұрын

What speed connection do you get with original copper wire?

We need more network engineers in the USA to expedite the fiber to home rollout. All that needs to be done is upgrading the head-end (hub) routers that support fiber, which most do nowadays. As the Core and backbone network is optimized for fiber , we just need the edge completed which only involves upgrading line cards on routers, or replacing the router that supports it and installing the optic and fiber, then fiber ran to the home. That's it, we have the infrastructure setup for it and ready, we just need the edge to finish up already. (I am a network architect and worked for multiple ISP's). But if you are interested in this type of work, please apply, you'll be making a lot of money 75k - 250k +, and you don't really need a degree (I only got a two year tech degree)....we need more people to get this expedited.

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

I'm not worried too much about FTTH. The new distributed access architecture is pretty powerful. RF nodes that only service 33 houses per return and have distribution runs limited to roughly 500 ft. With upgradeable 20gig SFPs in the nodes providing IP level access that close to the house,1.2ghz networks, OFDM/A being 4 times more efficient and robust and most of the customers going to single device platforms such as Comcast Xfinity, cable is far from dead. Been doing telephony/DSL/ISDN/Centrex since 96. FTTH/FTTC, cable, SDSL/ADSL/VDSL and more in 99. Now, cable MSO only, so I work on RFoG/GPON, Rphy, new 1.2 ghz analog networks and old 860mhz crap that should have been decommissioned a while ago. Monday Sept 12th we will release 8 gigabit internet. When we decomission all the older TV boxes that use SC QAMs, we will run full OFDM/A and open with a 1.5gig/500mb package. Next after that will be symmetrical 1.5gig over coax. I actually have less education than you, but when you can walk into the room and pick up tools and make it work and are known to work for multiple ISPs (and know a lot of the people in the industry), your education doesn't matter so much anymore. Yes, I get paid well and I totally agree you can make a great dollar doing this unless you want to spend 35 years as a residential installer. Then you are asking for it.

@yimcu5169

Жыл бұрын

Only reason ISP dont roll fiber to every house is cost and return on their investments, that is why the government keeps giving them money and more money

In Poland I have fiber Internet in my home (6$ per month) and also in my parents house (11$ per month). Works great. Maybe 20 years ago I had Internet through radio connection (terrible quality) and later through copper cable connection (works fine, but hamsters bite through copper cable few times a year and needs to be repaired).

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

You have wild hamsters at your home?

@adamwest7953

Жыл бұрын

@@seanthe100 Not at home. Copper cable went underground, through fields and meadows, where the wild hamsters live.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

@@adamwest7953 A lot of people will use these single case examples to say that they are better of than the US. The reality is that the median income in the US is $70,000 with one in three households being in excess of $100,000 per year. A VW Golf GTI will cost about $29000 in the US and in Germany the same car starts at $40000. This is the same through the whole of the US economy with things being far cheaper.

it's weid to read this, fiber is pretty much a standard technology nowadays 🙈

@robnelson6545

Жыл бұрын

Some people though still don’t have it.

@finadoggie

Жыл бұрын

It ain’t standard in the US

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Standard where?

as a polish person I'm glad they open up factory here 🇵🇱

Company interests never meant to match with public needs. Infrastructure for a whole Country has to be state driven, otherwise it will always fail.

@ChickenMcThiccken

Жыл бұрын

wrong. has to be federally driven. WHAT STATE!!!!???/

So what I'm hearing is. We had enough fiber to go to the sun and back AND WE DIDN'T DO IT? HOLY FU-

Fibre is a gamechanger. I remember my first fibre subscription 12 years ago in Singapore at 100Mbps. This came from a DSL connection and the speed difference, erm I can't remember how bad internet connection feels like.

Always well Informative videos... ✌🏼

I'm also anxious about fiber optic (color) processing units for computing... which should do at least 256x256x256-1 faster than binary, but... at a consistent speed because of no overheating... whereas the crossing of those colors is how it will do all the calculations instantly and a major bonus on top of that... we get our batteries able to last maybe many times longer.

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

While the connections between the nodes of a computer may get really fast results from transferring data the actual circuits are still not going to be fibre based. Even Fiber optic networks still have to use traditional switching networks.

@ThankYouESM

Жыл бұрын

​@@bighands69 That I fully understood since the first time fiber optics got introduced as a network service. But then again... we now even have slow-mo fitted inside of those very tiny GoPros at 240fps whereas 60fps is the gold standard. Keypoint is... there will be many times far fewer traditional switches in being replaced by non-friction optical blending that if it were to a 100x100 grid... then maybe 10 sensors outside of those are the traditional switches.

Does anyone find it strange that the company that owns CNBC is comcast and comcast also owns americas largest internet provider known as xfinity

@Jacarroll417

Жыл бұрын

Or the fact they refuse to upgrade to Fiber to the home and still use Docsis cable internet.

@achosenone44

Жыл бұрын

ya the sicko demonic fallen angel serpent snake as free mason trump to deceive gave comcast all that money for its tax scam bill for frequency weapons demonic teslas technology( demonology) the sicko shore didnt deceive me and shore wont deceive me when the sicko comes back!!! )

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

In every other country it would be a state broadcaster doing it and that would just have the same issues because it would be political.

The Swedish gov started rolling out fiber 15yrs ago. Today over 80% are directly connected. Sweden, like the US is a vast country sheer people may live far from each other. Having reliable services are therefore essential and in the Nordic climate often life-saving.

I worked as waiter where Donaled Keck resideded. I had the pleasure to wait on his family many times, and he was always a great guest! I later found out he was one of the people who came up with this technology! He has a presidential metal!

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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@charanso143

Жыл бұрын

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I have fiber to the house, on the outskirts of a decent sized midwest city. For 1000Gb Down I pay $95. Not really much considering, the Internet houses most of what we used to do with a TV/Cable. I've completely cut cable for that reason. I can get 2000Gb Down for only $20-30 more. However, EVERYBODY in America should have access to Fiber - the reason it's not the case is because these telecom giants overcharged our grandparents (AT&T I'm looking at you) to our parents (Verizon I see you) to now us (F.U. Comcast) and have never came up with a strategy to reinvest technology or resources into certain areas. Its all about the dollar!!

@sallerc

Жыл бұрын

1000Gb doesn't sound right, Gb as in Gigabit? Sure you don't mean 1000Mbit?