And by the way, other countries are pulling away. A Sony-backed service recently announced 2Gbps download speeds in Tokyo for $51 per-month, that's twice as fast as Google Fiber and 200 times faster than the U.S. average.
But if you lay fiber to every home in a city, the average cost comes way down and if a majority of homes sign up to use it. It's called economies of scale, and if we want to exploit it, we're going to have to bet a little more heavily on our own future by laying some fiber.
