McCool noted there are some government programs to encourage service providers to deploy fiber — similar to the Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment (BEAD) program in the U.S. Some examples include the EU’s Digital Decade Policy and the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.
In addition, individual countries sometimes have their own targets and incentive schemes. Germany’s Gigabitstrategie has the goal of delivering fiber-optic internet access to every household in Germany by 2030.
In the UK, the government has signed £1 billion in contracts to upgrade broadband infrastructure in rural communities through its Project Gigabit. The contracted companies are working to connect around 677,000 rural homes and businesses to fiber across England. The networks that are built with the government subsidy are required to be open access networks.
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