My parents live in a rural-ish town, and have FTTH. The connection from the distribution box up the road is made on an ad-hoc basis. The technician pulls the fiber on the posts used for electricity delivery. It's only been available for less than two years, though.
Sure, if you have no posts and have to dig up the sidewalk or something, it would be different.
But the major advantage of this approach is that distribution boxes are passive, just connectors, so they should be pretty cheap to install and operate.
My parents live in a rural-ish town, and have FTTH. The connection from the distribution box up the road is made on an ad-hoc basis. The technician pulls the fiber on the posts used for electricity delivery. It's only been available for less than two years, though.
Sure, if you have no posts and have to dig up the sidewalk or something, it would be different.
But the major advantage of this approach is that distribution boxes are passive, just connectors, so they should be pretty cheap to install and operate.