>You need to tunnel, and that takes a machine that cost like $500k-1mil or more, and that the operation cost of it was really high because you needed a special operator and 1 or more other expensive bureaucratic inspections/insurance/auditors/surveyors etc. That was for running along public property though, so maybe they could trench on private. I call bullshit on that. ATT ran fiber all through this subdivision which is heavily wooded and spread out. They hired a team of mexicans with a trackhoe and a small machine that punched holes between the trenches the trackhoe dug and they ran miles of fiber in a week. Neither machine costs 500k+