Communities with Fiber to the Home

I am a devoted user of Verizon's FiOS.  It works, it's never down, and it's blazingly fast, much faster than the T-1-type speeds that you find in DC law firms.  Everybody should have a similar service available to them.   But of course they don't. 

Ever wonder exactly who does?  The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) on Aril 26 announced an updated list of “U.S. Optical Fiber Communities,” with the total rising to 936 communities in 47 states.  The list tracks communities nationwide that are delivering broadband services to residential customers through FTTH solutions. According to the groups' press release:

The updated list shows that 280 communities were added since October 2005.  Further analysis shows more than four million homes have been passed with fiber, marking a 50 percent increase in the last six months, and that 671,000 homes have been connected, a 107 percent increase also since October 2005. . . .

The “U.S. Optical Fiber Communities List” is available at www.tiaonline.org.