“While solutions such as GPON optical fiber can provide 100s of megabits up to several gigabits of capacity, the high costs associated with laying the fiber makes the goal of ubiquitous gigabit citywide coverage unachievable and unaffordable for almost all countries.”

Thank you, Facebook, for doing your part in making sure we never roll out fiber to everyone in major metro areas (let alone to everyone period).

( From https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072680049445290/introducing-facebook-s-new-terrestrial-connectivity-systems-terragraph-and-project-aries/ )

@kellerfuchs Yep, and instead people get Facebook-owned wireless access networks that probably use proprietary standards.
Creepy. :/