[DavidPeiffer]

> Seems like this also produces a lot of waste over time if you wrap a power line, then have to re-do the work 30 years later (or sooner).

I have no specific expertise in this area. A quick Google search shows MV power lines have a life of 20-30 years, and aerial fiber lines designed for ~25 years. Facebook's goal is to get people online.

Ideally you'd be wrapping younger power lines and decommission everything at the end of its useful life. It may be viable to get people reliable high-speed internet now, and in 20 years the area is developed enough it can support even better infrastructure that they fund themselves.

Internet now might allow a merchant can list a product for sale online and post a picture, notably increasing sales. Internet in 20 years might be 1,000x as fast as it is today, and doing things we can't even imagine at the moment.

Hopefully innovation like this helps minimize the disparity in opportunity between rural and urban areas, and rich and poor countries.