Metrics question

How would you go about deploying Google Fiber to a new city, assuming you were part of the original roll-out team?

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What this question tests

Metrics for a capital intensive infrastructure rollout, balancing build speed, cost efficiency, and long term subscriber adoption.

Confirm the goal: fastest coverage expansion, cost efficiency, or subscriber adoption within a new city.
Split metrics into build phase, such as homes passed per month, and adoption phase, such as subscriber conversion rate.
Add a cost metric, cost per home passed, since infrastructure builds are capital intensive.
Add a satisfaction and reliability metric, such as uptime and support ticket rate, since fiber competes on quality.
Define a north star, such as subscribers per dollar invested, tying build efficiency to adoption success.
Set a guardrail on construction related complaints, since fiber rollouts involve digging in public spaces.

Separates build phase metrics from adoption phase metrics, reflecting the real two stage nature of infrastructure rollout.
Includes cost per home passed, a metric specific to capital intensive infrastructure projects.
Adds a community facing guardrail, construction complaints, relevant to digging up streets and yards.
Ties everything to one north star, subscribers per dollar invested, useful for comparing cities.

Tracks only subscriber growth and ignores the capital cost side of the rollout.
Ignores community impact from construction, a real and common complaint with fiber rollouts.

How would you decide which neighborhoods to prioritize first within a city?
How would you measure success differently in a competitive market versus one with no fiber competitor?
What would make you pull out of a city mid rollout?