I currently live in what I would consider a semi-rural area - there are a decent number of people living here (I'd estimate a few thousand), almost all within a short distance of the highway (basically, small neighborhoods branching off of the highway). Since around Christmas, I've seen AT&T digging trenches and laying orange conduit along the highway.
Unfortunately, this is a busy 2-lane highway with no safe places to pull over, so short of hiking a few miles to ask the workers if they know anything, I can't really do much. Likewise, getting any good pictures would be difficult.
They have placed at various locations little white flags that say "AT&T Proposed Telephone Trench Location" on them, mixed among all of the other utility markers for their existing copper buried lines, and the gas lines. At various locations, the little orange conduit sticks up and lays in small coils above the ground.
AT&T has accepted CAF 2 funding for this area.
For what it's worth, this is in Posey County, Indiana, on Indiana 66, shortly after the Vanderburgh County-Posey County line. This is an area where AT&T never bothered installing legacy DSL service. The city of Evansville, Indiana is a few miles away in Vanderburgh county. The only AT&T Internet service availiable in the city of Evansville right now is IP-DSLAM ADSL2+ service, however AT&T has announced that they are bringing AT&T Fiber to Evansville by mid-2019.
This Google Maps link will show you the general area: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0654004,-87.7318429,14z
Is there any way I can identify if this is going to be for FTTP, VDSL2 (U-Verse), or something else?
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