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Old 02-28-2026, 09:54 AM   #1
longislander
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Not only that it's unlinked to electrical service but, unlike for a cable company which has/had an exclusive contract for an area, multiple fiber providers can have cables present. I have both NH Broadband and Fidium access from my street. That means they run completely separate fiber cables, ect. for the whole source route. Their network infrastructures are completely independent of each other.

You could have Fidium running supply lines to an area one week and NH Broadband running their lines a couple weeks later.

Then, every time a customer wants to hook up to fiber, they come out and run fiber from the street to the house/apartment. That's a quick process but there are a LOT of houses. Lots of Rinse & repeat.
On the Neck road in Moultonborugh, we've got Fidium, NH Broadband, and Spectrum. I've got all three connected and tried all three at the house. I've stayed with Fidium due to their symetrical speeds. They have been "faster" than the other two, consistently. I subscribe to 1 Gig. I can switch over any time and swap out the ONT/modem at any time ... and have.
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