You can put up a ton of fiber but what good does it do if it is not engineered correctly. These areas get engineered without anyone setting foot in the town. Hard to get terminals ,hubs and splice points placed in spots that make sense so you don't have to shut down a lane of traffic to access a splice for example. Cheap terminals that are broken out of boxes, fiber vaults full of water and multiple dwelling units that don't have adequate fiber counts to feed them. Someone thinks that they are saving a bunch of money but I have seen it personally where someone engineered a new dslam to be fed from a hub, buried fiber a long way when aerial from the opposite way would be a 3rd as far, not to mention they plowed thru our buried copper in the process. It's such a waste. Constantly changing the terminals, onts, and drop type. I'm sick just thinking about it. I thought fiber was the future, but not the way we are going about it.
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The sad/ comical side of this post is that you are right. I worked a project with engineers in Florida that focused entirely on businesses in an area in Tampa. The budget was 22M. Our job was to verify the path and red line it for changes and notify the engineer of said changes. The seven block by three block area had so many issues they built it AS IS because the changes TRIPLED the budget. No cables placed, terminals "in place" on a building that doesnt exist, and, the best yet, a terminal "placed" at an address that is a gated park with a staute. That was in the Vz days but everything is better in the "New Frontier!"