Utilities and city carriers can leverage their existing fiber infrastructure and right-of-way to create new revenue-generating services offered to other service providers or their end-users. Many already offer access to mobile operators for wireless backhaul applications.
Others have connected universities, schools, and libraries over Ethernet network to improve education, and offer FTTH-based residential services to the customers they serve. Many utilities also use their fiber to transfer their internal critical mission traffic as well as backhaul SmartGrid traffic.