This guy can't even get the simple stuff right (Hanging CMTSs from poles? what is he smoking?).
The device he's referring to hanging off a pole (where the "high-capacity fiber cable" switches over to "cable TV... wires") isn't a CMTS, it's an HFC node. Which can be pole-mounted or even hung on the cable strand.
If you're going to call someone an idiot, it's best to not be yourself an idiot.
Did YOU READ the article?
said by NY Times :If the company needs to add a new Cable Modem Termination System, the device that connects cable wires to the Internet, it will pay $6,000 if the device is in one of its existing facilities. And if Comcast needs install a new C.M.T.S. on a pole, stringing a new fiber optic cable to it, the cost is $20,000.
