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Very impressive. The problem seems much more daunting than what is typically tackled with robotics. Kudos to the team. Does this mean that the electric utilities will be joining the cable tv and telephone utilities in offering internet services or do the economics only work in locales with electric transmission right-of-ways alone?

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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-ce81-48...

Yes, that is the rub.

In certain locales, it will require the cooperation of several legal entities.

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