Last week, San Francisco became the first major city in America to pledge to connect all of its homes and businesses to a fiber optic network.
Americans, it turns out, are capable of great things—even if only at the city level these days.
You might think: Big deal, San Francisco is our tech capital, the last place that needs this.
The “dark” fiber would be passive, public-works-like construction of basic fiber infrastructure, and would include no retail customer-service relationship.
Private operators, in turn, would install the electronics that “light” the network and would connect up customers to the internet.
San Francisco, after years of study, has finally gotten to the point of readiness to take this step.
Bravo to Mayor Lee and Supervisor Farrell for their commitment to the future of their beloved city. »
