We’ve wrapped fiber around ground wire in the past. Though here they’re doing it around the conductor. Also their robot is an advancement and pretty cool. But w

We’ve wrapped fiber around ground wire in the past. Though here they’re doing it around the conductor. Also their robot is an advancement and pretty cool. But when I’ve worked in the power industry in the past the guys who had experimented with this stuff wound up really hating it for the difficulties it adds to maintenance and the like. So this may be cool but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it rarely used in actual practice. Strikes me a lot like project loon and all these other things where people are trying invent unnecessary shortcuts. If you really want to get internet to people with a reasonable bandwidth/coverage/and cost trade off start building large towers dotted across the continent and use wireless access, or wait for star link.