There is little doubt amongst industry professionals that current and next-generation fiber optic cable systems are and will be for some time to come the only economical and timely way to deliver telephone service, medical and resource monitoring, remote medical diagnostics, dynamic on-demand video and the media-rich total presence advertising which organization are competing to bring consumers --- all over the allege high-speed broadband internet.
But is it high-speed for everyone?
Since cable and telephone companies are not designed to compete with one other. Cable markets are typically oligopolies - a small number of providers in de facto collusion - with similar pricing structures financied by the same funding entities. The common business model is to maximize shareholder value by making service scarce and expensive, delivering a rich menu of choices to dense, high-income, high profit areas first, while offering limited or no service at later dates and higher rates to poorer urban, suburban and rural areas (i.e. cherry picking and redlining, respectively)
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