They're in the process of installing FTTP to my street.
No poles here.
Instead of having those wooden poles where copper and fibre runs to the houses you probably have underground ducting... induced if these copper and fibre are run to houses.
Seems a very odd comment for an engineer to make.
There are two versions of 'underground' feeds .... ducted and DIG (Direct in ground).
Ducted is straightforward.
A percentage of the DIG surveys we do will be omitted from the build due to high-costs (to be picked up at with future programmes such as FVR or the final 10%), but before it gets to that stage we will ask if going overhead (installing poles) is a preferred solution with the local community. If it's a yes, then it will get built.
So the engineer may have been alluding to that scenario with his comment ??