I have not, but had a friend recently who did. He works pretty much entirely from home doing graphic design and video animations. He does not have a home phone, but did run phone and CAT6e to all rooms. He debated on running the phone, but in the end decided to just in case he decides to sell down the road. Little things like that could be a costly add-on for a potential purchaser.
He also had an "IT closet" built in the house. It houses all the phone, networking, and a media server. It has dedicated circuits, a metal door, concrete walls, and a separate small AC unit built in for cooling. While he doesn't intend for it to withstand any disaster, he did want some added time or at least a little more reassurance. Overall the house is about 4500 square feet, and each room has drops for cable, phone, and multiple ethernet drops. He also has WiFi throughout the house, but for streaming content having the wired connection provides the best quality. Finally for his home office he dropped a fiber connection from the closet. He does have a backup system in the closet and also backs up that remotely, but in general the fiber was probably an overkill for just one room in my opinion.
He has a bunch of other "features" throughout the house for controlling environment, lighting, security, temperature, etc from both inside and outside the house. In the end I don't think it was much more expensive to do since they were starting from scratch. I am sure it probably would have cost a ton more to do post-construction. And I think with the direction the smart home movement is going it probably added to the value of the home in some way.
Yeah, he had never really thought about it (and I wouldn't have thought about it) and wasn't planning on installing them at all, but a couple realtors he talked to said it probably wouldn't be a good idea to omit them completely. Even if he didn't put them in every room, at least have them in key rooms (i.e. kitchen, general living area, and master bedroom). One realtor told him that installing them wouldn't increase value, but not having them could decrease value depending on the buyer.
He also had an "IT closet" built in the house. It houses all the phone, networking, and a media server. It has dedicated circuits, a metal door, concrete walls, and a separate small AC unit built in for cooling. While he doesn't intend for it to withstand any disaster, he did want some added time or at least a little more reassurance. Overall the house is about 4500 square feet, and each room has drops for cable, phone, and multiple ethernet drops. He also has WiFi throughout the house, but for streaming content having the wired connection provides the best quality. Finally for his home office he dropped a fiber connection from the closet. He does have a backup system in the closet and also backs up that remotely, but in general the fiber was probably an overkill for just one room in my opinion.
He has a bunch of other "features" throughout the house for controlling environment, lighting, security, temperature, etc from both inside and outside the house. In the end I don't think it was much more expensive to do since they were starting from scratch. I am sure it probably would have cost a ton more to do post-construction. And I think with the direction the smart home movement is going it probably added to the value of the home in some way.