I think you’re right about it being more than enough bandwidth, but there wasn’t anything secret about their plan. What was secret, was why it dropped for the local paper all of the sudden. To my knowledge it came to nothing.
In the meantime they kept tearing up the streets to put in fiber, and no one would coordinate with each other. E.g. the fiber install on one street coincided with re-pavement of another street that I would’ve taken as a detour.
(Then I moved away, anyway.)
I can never find anything about the old plan in archived news, but then the Statesman keeps their old stuff behind a paywall anyway. Only thing I can see along these lines is that the city changed to “smart meters” (i.e. cellular).
