The difficulties they had around pole attachment meant that shallow trenching was a last ditch (no pun intended) effort. If you attach to a pole in many jurisdi

The difficulties they had around pole attachment meant that shallow trenching was a last ditch (no pun intended) effort. If you attach to a pole in many jurisdictions you are at the mercy of foot-dragging by everyone else on the pole to make way. Google tried to change the rules but ran into significant and expensive opposition from those who were well entrenched (again, pun not intended.)