I actually don't know, since I wasn't here during the "iProvo" days. One guess is that so much of the housing are rental units. Since residents don't own the properties they live in, the landlords have to approve the installation of a fiber link, but that costs money (even if it's cheap), and they can justify not spending it since there's an existing DSL or cable connection.
Google Fiber faces the same problem, and this, I suspect, is precisely why my building's management company decided to forgo Google Fiber for DSL. Yuck. Fortunately, Google Fiber generated enough hype and made the installation fee so low that it appealed to lots of landlords.
Google Fiber faces the same problem, and this, I suspect, is precisely why my building's management company decided to forgo Google Fiber for DSL. Yuck. Fortunately, Google Fiber generated enough hype and made the installation fee so low that it appealed to lots of landlords.