I've worked in telco for a while now. I'm a optics technician and fiber splicer for AT&T but I've worked on X/A/VDSL circuits for extensive periods of time. My degree is in computer science and I've been involved with testing of working and non-working projects from Bell Labs. I will probably get downvoted for explaining this logically but whatever. There is always such ignorance and mob mentality in these threads, simply because people don't understand the technology required to make the internet work. Let me put this simply: The copper phone line feeding you DSL or the dielectric coaxial feeding your cable connection HAS LIMITATIONS AND WAS NEVER DESINGED TO CARRY DATA TRAFFIC IN THE FIRST PLACE. Remember before the internet? Before you were born? Well, believe it or not, before the internet was around, people still enjoyed watching TV and talking on the phone. Because people liked it so much; the government made sure everyone had access to CATV and twisted pair phone line. Wiring up an entire nation that's still growing is not a quick an easy task. But eventually, trillions of dollars later, we've got enough done to pretty much say we did it. Then, BAM! Dial up isn't good enough. "Give us something faster!" The people screamed, "the internet had always come through the phone line! ITS YOUR JOB TO MAKE IT FASTER!" They rioted as technology fell behind. Because, you see, that 22ga, 5000' copper line coming to the side of of your house was, again, only ever built to carry a dial tone, powered by a battery, in a building, a mile away. But one day a group of geniuses, brought together by your local telecom company, found a way to push a few kbps through it. And last week I witnessed the testing of a 300/mbps bonded pair circuit in Allen, TX and I can tell you that it works. You think it's an easy task to just lay fiber wherever we want? If it were, we fucking would. A fiber line is about 100 times less likely to fail as opposed to twisted pair or coaxial. Less repair costs and less eauipment. Fiber optics run on a PON style system in the modern age. Passive Optical Network. It starts out as an Ethernet signal, it is then converted to light and shot down the fiber all the way to the ONT at your home where it is then converted back to ethernet and into your modem. This means there is no powered equipment at all in the circuit that can fail. Because of this, yeah, obviously its the best choice for everyone involved. But we can't just say "This neighborhood is getting FTTP, grab some fucking construction people and lay that shit down!" First of all, the shit you're offered currently doesn't work, because A: you live in a shitty part of town where we wont send people to repair facilities because shit gets stolen and it employees get robbed (sorry you're poor!). Or B: the wiring inside your shit ass $500-$800 a month apartment throttles the fuck out of your connection because its fucking "cat3 equivalent" daisychained through three apartments. The reason your Netflix buffers is because half of your download frequencies are dropping out in the rust and corrosion all over the fucking shitty facilities your apartment has provided for its residents (again, sorry you're poor!) Do you have any idea how many reddit surfing, neck beards I've seen going into people's homes. Some fat, unemployed fuck trying to tell me some shit he read on DSL Reports, go fuck yourself. If your technician tests to the modem and the signal is fine, is definitely a problem with your network, he has no reason to lie. If your technician tells you there's a problem outside, let them try to repair it, if you continue to have problems, it will never get fixed. There are a lot of line issues that would require far more money to repair then you're worth as a customer (any person who's been to school and taken any type of basic economics course understands how logical that is). If you live anywhere but a major city, go fuck yourself. Expanding across county lines takes years because the poles and facilities will be shared by cities and they have to work out agreements (sometimes this.never happens), and all kinds of stuff.

If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. I've been involved with the planning of infrastructure in the US, India and Mexico (btw, if you live in one of the latter countries; be thankful your shit works at all. Your citizens are constantly destroying facilities trying to tap in for free internet and shit because they don't fucking get it. Google Indian telco facilities)