Fiber broadband availability grew by 12% in 2021, but fewer than half of the households in the U.S. have access to fiber-based broadband services, according to a new provider survey from the Fiber Broadband Association.
The survey estimated that 43% of U.S. households have access to fiber-based broadband service, while 60% of households in Canada have fiber access.
However, the immense amount of federal dollars in the form of both pandemic relief funds that are still being spent, and infrastructure-spending dollars that have yet to become fully available, represent a fiber boom to come.