As reported by Anna Gross for Financial Times (FT. com), the market intelligence firm Cru Group has now revealed that a worldwide shortage of fiber-optic cable has driven up product pricing and lengthened lead times on supply, casting a shadow over ambitious industry plans for. As reported by Anna Gross for Financial Times (FT. Raw materials, finished components, transportation of goods, supply storage, and skilled labor are all dramatically more expensive than pr -pandemic, and often in short or uncertain supply. In addition, many government programs supporting these. Fegley-Lummus, who's responsible for tracking information on the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and how much fiber will be needed there, said states and territories in their final proposals are projecting to deploy just under 500,000 miles of fiber for BEAD alone. The FBA's Supply Chain Working Group published the paper in September. The data shows improvements across the board, including a 92% reduction in lead times for fiber-optic cable since last fall. it wants to phase out DSL networks under certain conditions. To this end, the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) proposed a regulatory concept at the.