Your experience is at odds with mine.  The fiber comes right into my home from the street. It doesn't cutover to coax outside or up the street.

The run inside your home from the ONT (The device that terminates the fiber, which is in my basement) to TVs or computers can be either coax or ethernet.  It's a software setting in the ONT that can be changed easily.  Most people put a router next to the ONT and run ethernet to the computer.

There's no point in using fiber for distribution within your home, unless you're operating a data center.  1 gigabit ethernet works great, especially since the upstream speed is 20 megabits+.

I have Verizon FIOS. Let me describe it using Rhode Island terminology: "It's wicked fast."

:-)

What's really cool is my FIOS installer from Verizon showed me the actual cable and peeled away all the layers.  While the cable is roughly the size of coax, the actual fiber itself is thinner than sewing thread, inside a variety of different types of protective shields and layers.  Amazing stuff.  It's also amazing that they can splice this stuff in a truck.

I would have named it the "innovation" vs. "knowledge" district but whatever, one thing is clear -- there is no future for jewelry manufacturing here so it's nice to see the name look to the future rather than the past.

@angusdav

Three cheers for #ri tweeters :-)