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@SteveBellovin @angusm @jack_daniel @pluralistic
Needless to say, this did not start with fibre... at Bell LAbs ~1980, I managed development of data mining software specifically for outside plant phone cables, i.e., from central office to subscribers.
"Man-made problems" category included backhoes, and there were plenty of them, despite pervasive efforts to avoid them.
All this is part of reason it's cheap to do underground in fersh new developments, and expensive in developed ones.