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octoberfranklintoday at 12:58 AM1 replyview on HN

Any one particular cable might not move often, but if a telco owns N bucket trucks it's a safe bet that about N cables move every workday.

Telcos are notoriously secretive about the location of their fiber. They even got most state legislatures to exempt it from state-level FOIA laws.


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c22today at 4:59 AM

If you have a map of all utility poles you could probably just avoid every straight line between any of them within some reasonable distance of eachother.