Well it's sort of overhead. As it's a 1930s house we have the phoneline underground until it reaches the telegraph poles outside the houses, then each pole has the wires overhead going to about 10 houses. So they have laid the fibre underground from the cabinet to the pole and it will just be overhead from the pole to the house.

It makes sense in terms of cost, because its far easier to run it overhead to the houses and then just in through the wall.

In Chichester they were completely underground, so far more effort and cost involved with the fibre laid underground needing an access hatch at the end if every property ready to them dig a trench to the door when someone ordered it.

Not sure how they will do full fibre for those living down country lanes where its all overhead on poles. Is it feasible to run fibre completely overhead on poles? Or will they be digging up those roads eventually too?