“Bringing fiber from the street to just to one home can cost $100,000, according to Sckipio.
By comparison, the boxes on the street that need to be installed to power G.Fast cost about $70,000.”
This sort of thing makes you wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article. I suspect there were supposed to be a couple of decimal points in those numbers.
While it sounds like a great advancement, there is no way $70K per household in capital costs would ever be repaid. You could install gigabit wireless in a neighborhood for $200 per household capital cost. One router on every telephone pole or light pole and you would have a similar speed WAN.
What can G.Fast do that my current DSL can’t do?
From the article:
"... the boxes on the street that need to be installed to power G.Fast cost about $70,000. And the cost of bringing that to your home is $0,..."
From that I infer that a $70,000 box will service many households.
Most areas have fiber to a node, and then copper to the house.
To have fiber in the home you would need a laser receiver/decoder in the house. Those can be just a little expensive.
Most of the time the download speed in suburban cable systems is maxing out the server you are downloading from.
When I worked at the cable company we had a node in our office. That speed was sweet.