So, am I reading this correctly when I come to the understanding that there is going to be a single company in control of delivering service on this wire? That seems like a recipe for more of the same, where a single provider has little incentive to price competitively or improve service in the absence of competition. You could probably decay from exciting internet to under-performing in as little as a decade.

On another note, can the trunk lines be kept to a relatively low capacity, and then scaled later, or is this not feasible? I'm wondering how much you have the chance in the implementation of this to start with limited bandwidth (but still very high for residential users) and then scale up once you have users and all the connections to the homes.