Well people often talk of Verizon Fios in the US. In actual fact Verizon stopped rolling out Fios years ago. And they pretty much DO have the luxury of cheap overhead cabling everywhere.

There is loads of overhead fibre in Openreach's network. Plenty of 3G/LTE masts are fed this way. Have Openreach actually said that they won't do FTTP On Demand using poles?

When the government relaxed the planning rules temporarily, allowing more overhead cabling, I'm sure I saw that BT don't expect to make any additional use of it. I don't think they *want* to have lots of fibre overhead.

Where underground ducting is available am sure they would prefer to use it, but overhead has not held them back in Cornwall