In the rural parts of the state, yes. That ends up being roughly 60% of the state[0]. In terms of pricing, my family who's nearest neighbors are over a mile away pay less each month than I do for more bandwidth than I get, and I live in a major tech hub.

There's a bit of encouragement from the state government and the rural providers also get free money that everyone else in these United [sic] States pays on their telecommunications bills. However it is still a good example of what can be accomplished in consumer Internet if not for the mega-corporations we have doing it today. If a small provider who's customers are frequently over a mile apart can do fiber to the home, why can't we have the same in metros?

The one disadvantage is the transit providers they plug into aren't the best - IIRC I was going through cogent in MSP to get to most popular cloud providers. Their network is worth looking at though[1][2]

0: http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0616-fiber-optic-No...

1: http://dakotacarrier.com/services/overview/ 2: http://broadband.nd.gov/nd-broadband-map

Yep. Rural electrics, local telephone companies, and some cable companies have fiber. It probably is a function of most places now having multiple providers.

[edit: examples] https://www.bektel.com/products-amp-services/bekfiber/ https://www.gondtc.com/internet_services.html

ignore the 90's style websites