[anon4]

> maintenance on those do-it-yourself solutions is high

Not when it's done by eastern europeans paid eastern european salaries in the years before said countries even joined the EU. After enough time, sure it will cost more than a proper solution, but by that time you would have made enough money to move the cables underground.

And yeah population density, that old bogeyman. I can get how it will cost more in a sparsely populated area, but why does it also cost so much in a densely populated one?