Instead of burying cables and rewiring homes, providers of the service use the local power grid.

A pipe-and-cable-laying plough is a trenchless method to bury cables or pipes.

Verizon will spend an estimated $22 billion through 2010 burying high-capacity cables, according to Sanford C. Bernstein research.

The government has buried electric and telephone cables in the area, and replaced old asphalt with paving stones.

NR is looking to bury cables in particularly vulnerable areas and to ensure they are marked so they can be more easily identified at scrapyards.

(Burying cables is vastly more expensive than building overhead tower lines.)

As September wanes, the cooler days facilitate manual labor like trenching through the lawn to bury cables.

However, the cost of burying and maintaining cables at transmission voltages is several times greater than overhead power lines.

But this time he may be right: burying cables may be an idea whose time has come.

Although burying cables would be expensive, the present system and the constant repairs cost plenty as well.