Yeah, I honestly don't get it. For many years people had Telkom lines on poles. Now that there's a new pole, it's suddenly "unsightly". Give them two days and they'll be used it.
Someone from our local Rate Payers Association said to me that "overhead lines and poles look third world and we really don't need more third world stuff in our already third world country", when they challenged Openserve - nothing came of it, poles are still here.
Spend about 10 minutes on Google Street View, you'll quickly notice that most first world countries with high FTTH penetration (with some exceptions like Singapore) have a huge chunk of their fibre / fixed line infrastructure on poles and not underground (think Japan, South Korea, Australia, Ireland, Canada, UK etc).
