Optical fibres strung from telegraph poles

One of the holdups to the fast deployment of fiberoptic is that it is necessary to make it pass inside the ground, by the sewers or other drains envisaged for this purpose. Virgin decided to try an experiment in small English villages by doing without the burial of the fibres. They quite simply will try to see the way in which a fiberoptic behaves if it is strung between telegraph poles to the same way as the copper wires of the telephone that one still finds in France apart from the agglomerations.
If the solution proves viable, it will allow to high speed access more quickly in the zones of low density.
It is amusing to see a company thus doing something new with very old technology, the first telegraph line dating from first half of the 19th century.