FIBER OPTICS OR COPPER CABLE WHATS THE DIFFERENCE ?

AT&T is looking at  rewiring the whole village with fiber optic cable that will come right into your unit and hook up directly to your TV or Computer.
Right now we do have fiber optic cable connected to distribution nodes located strategically around the village. Co-axial copper cable leads from the nodes to a connection on the outside of your building which then is distributed to the condo  units through co-axial.
The difference is mainly in internet speed.  The existing co-axial cable is shared by all the condos in the buildings.when multiple users are online at the same time , the speed drops. Though you may think you have 100 megs of bandwidth. that is not the case when the incoming 100 megs is shared.
The Fiber optic cable system  doesn't share bandwidth, resulting in continuous 100 megs ( or whatever bandwidth you have) no matter how many are using it in your system . The benefits are obvious, and when you think about Internet TV  and live streaming of TV programs through the Internet, sharing bandwidth with co-axial cable  may not be such a great idea.
AT&T is contemplating rewiring a new fiber optic system . Atlantic proposes keeping the same old wiring system except they say the will replace the co-axial that runs between their new fiber optic distribution nodes and your building with fiber optic cable.You're still going to have the same old shared co-axial cable  inside your building.
The most  ridiculous aspect in the debate is that we are going to have two functioning systems in every building  if AT&T decides to upgrade and Atlantic gets the contract.