Ideas from the open access world.

The Market is Changing Fiber markets are entering a structural transition. The industry’s primary source of value creation is shifting from expanding footprint, to extracting greater value from the footprint that already exists. It is now competing to monetize and scale networks that already exist. Investors and operators increasingly view revenue growth, utilization, and capital-efficient expansion as the primary source of value creation. Put simply retail providers are expanding subscriber growth by leveraging already built fiber networks via acquisition and partnership.