> Though I am not sure the one I linked could cross pylons, and as such could be only for HV, not MV lines. IMO the entire point of the post is that they can n

> Though I am not sure the one I linked could cross pylons, and as such could be only for HV, not MV lines. IMO the entire point of the post is that they can now run the fiber on the Medium Voltage lines. That allows cost effectively running fiber on existing infrastructure thats much more widespread and passes closer to homes. From the article, MV is the harder challenge for running helical cable than HV because the lines are bunched closer together, can't carry as much weight and have far more obstructions. The cool thing this new approach does is make a compact robot that can run smaller cables and handle obstacles. This is going open up fiber as an option to way more communities where it previously was not cost effective to do so.