The interesting part starts around 20 minutes in.
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In what way is it 'interesting' ?
Any clues ?
Well I guess interesting is highly subjective, the first 20 minutes or so are about the history of the company and stuff like that, after that it's about the equipment used, how it's installed and how the network is built.
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An entertaining part was at 0:33 when dude introduced Paddy Paddison as Paddy Paddington and Paddy Paddison responded with "It's Paddison." Saw the prop/talon/#2 in him start to emerge.
All made possible by four laborers digging four hours, a 1m x 1m x 2m with hand shovels ... repeated every day for every house on every street in every town.
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The what?? Say that again only in English please.
Tom... 
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Agreed. Sry.
Teams of four ditch diggers dig almost two meters deep pits only big enough for one person, so one digs until exhaustion, then the next... to house the junction boxes directing the f.o. light to the residence. Two holes a day... et c. Seen it. Done it once. I'm too claustrophobic.
Haven't these people ever heard of the Ditch Witch?
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I am sure they (we) have. The hole is 2m/6ft deep and only 1mx1m square, and sometimes less than 1m if the sidewalk and the curb are not 1m apart. The need for a human and not a machine is the possibility of previously installed infrastructure. Augers do not feel cables or pipes.
It might also be cultural: I can't recall the last year I saw a work crew actually dig a hole or a trench by hand here in the US. Those Ditch Witch trenchers come in very small sizes.
I don't blame them either. The first time I had to dig a bunch of holes for fence posts, I headed over to the tool rental shop right away to rent a power auger. After a few hours of trying to dig through rock-hard clay, I said "screw that" and paid a dude with a Bobcat to do it 
I call this a very good decision. Nothing beats professional work.
I was helping my friend make a tiny house (7mX7m) using SIP (board-foam-board) on an abandon lot. We dug out his sewer connection and room for the internet box. Being so deep in the earth, you hear nothing above you, and constantly hope the walls do not cave-in. An experience I probably will not try again. Paypal is my hole digger/roof installer/et c.
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