This is all middle-mile deployments, so the utility would be leasing strands to cable/telco/other entities. There are quite a few routes built on HV power line

This is all middle-mile deployments, so the utility would be leasing strands to cable/telco/other entities. There are quite a few routes built on HV power lines. Problem is you get weird problems like lightning strikes inducing magnetic field that affects polarization and other things that cause outages. E.g. https://www.ofcconference.org/getattachment/d0ec1565-ce81-4897-82c1-e18cb9546c79/Lightning-Strikes-and-100G-Transport.aspx https://www.ofcconference.org/getattachment/d0ec1565-ce81-48...