Take the 2-minute tour ×  When I was in United States, one thing
always puzzled me.  When we took comcast internet connection,
comcast guys came over to our place, setup router etc, but they
never had to lay any cables.  This made to think that unlike in
India, in US houses are perhaps "planned" in the sense that
telephone wires go underground or inside wall etc, basically
invisible and comcast people just connect the routers with these
ports on wall.  But this arose some more questions. who ownes
these underneath running telephone wires? are they owned by
government telephone companies and what if I took internet thru
telephone by 2 different companies say comcast and verizon, how
would it work? How will both companies use the same telephonic
wires? In such case, do they lay separate cables?  share|improve
this question I like this question because it shows how easily
people can increasingly make assumptions about ubiquitous
technologies like the internet as vendors increasingly make it
seem more like an app