Dude, did you read anything at all?Sorry,but the data you are corresponding to belongs to 2017...
The signal loss does not matter as long as you maintain sanity in installation.
And as far as We consider....GEPON is evolving and less overhead loss is available for majority of data.
Anyways.... Most LCO prefer GEPON due to less technical stuff requirement.You can easily place an OLT for each radius of 20km .It is specifically useful for rural areas due to practicality of cable operations along with ftth
In the EU, all major ISPs are using GPON due to its superiority and security. I know this from somebody who lives in Latvia.
Yeah but already developed cable infrastructure doesnt need much changes for adaption to newer docsis standards isnt it . Only their cable plants ie.cmts needed to upgraded isnt it plus modems . in US and all fibre connections are rarely thereI've not followed the cable internet situation closely, but the advantage of PON is that it's passive, and has a range of upto 10-20 km and doesn't need any active boosters on the way, even the splitters are entirely passive.
Plus the cables are relatively cheap, making it very very cheap to maintain a PON network as compared the legacy coax cable network.
This is one of the main reasons why operators are moving to PON.