Here's one example of the ineptitude of Google. They wanted to bring Fiber to a city, but did not want to have anything to do with easement or right-of-way acquisitions. So they bribed the Mayor to permit them to jack up the streets to 'bury' their cable.
This amounted to a weird Google proprietary asphalt-punch tool that could cross streets with cable slightly 'buried' under the road, and then Google covered this with semi-hot patch (the patch not so much Google proprietary, but just shitty semi-hot patch rubber).
Et voila, in the first year of Google Fiber coming to town, the semi-hot patch immediately eroded everywhere it was laid, exposing the fiber line and ruining streets.
Six months later Google was quietly GONE, having fired everyone involved with their Fiber project, while doubling-down on the Mayor's bribe to keep the city-county from pursuing them in court for the cost of repair to the streets.
Ummmm... That’s actually standard procedure for fiber installs. I’ve seen ATT and Verizon (now Frontier) do their installs that way.