> Companies buying those machines need years to get their money back. If they didn't believe they would make a good ROI they wouldn't buy as much.
In the late-1990s companies were building out fibre optic networks, as they believed they would get a lot of ROI from all the Information Superhighway demand. The expected demand never came in the expected timeline.
Of course demand eventually used up all the dark fibre over the course of many moons, just not quickly enough to save many companies:
In the late-1990s companies were building out fibre optic networks, as they believed they would get a lot of ROI from all the Information Superhighway demand. The expected demand never came in the expected timeline.
Of course demand eventually used up all the dark fibre over the course of many moons, just not quickly enough to save many companies:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecoms_crash