Broadband in America from an insider.
I am on the other side-
Routers, switches and servers.
I am in year 27.
I stared with 48K then 56, 128, and T1.
That's what connected all of our outlying campuses/sites back to our data canter and then to "the cloud".
I got to help troubleshoot the connections with the ISP, be it the phone company or a cable company, etc.
I wish I had bought stock in Vermeer, after I first saw them directional boring for retrofit fiber.
In the past year, there has been a flurry of new activity.
Some is new housing activity, some is filling in areas that got passed over the first few times.