Here in Japan, government and business got together to fund the laying of fiber.
Now, in the area I live, I have 4 different choices of 100mbs synchronous fiber service providers, which include phone service, and I pay about US$70 a month.
For ADSL, there are easily three times the number of sources.
Cable though is almost dead because there is not enough competition so prices are high and service is terrible. Cable here is now the new "300 baud", i.e. NOT "the new black".
On the subscriber side, things are great.
On the provider side, they are making money hand over fist, except the cable providers who are dying.
Other countries that have followed pretty much the same road map are not that much different while countries that allow and support companies in their imposing and inflicting of monopolies find they don't have as much money for expansion. There are even still providers in some countries that actually have bandwidth caps!
Go figure.
