Don't understand your question.  The introduction of the internet in the 80's-90's caused a dramatic increase in demand for data transport bandwidth.  This demand lead to a bubble feed massive fiber infrastructure development.  Projections for massive future bandwidth needs led to the emplacement of massive amounts of fiber much of which to this day remains unlit.   The total amount of data transport today is massively more than 20-25 years ago.  Think just about Netflix and the aggregate bandwidth needed by millions to simultaneously watch it.  The build-out connected cities, but costs for local fiber deployment remained too high to be practical except in regions of high population/business density.  Some other countries subsidized local fiber distribution, but not so much here.  So we lag a bit.  What Eugene is doing is just a little local loop for local distribution.  All data to outside still goes over the commercial backbone.