Are you sure about that "pulls range from 750 - 2400 feet?" Normally, fiber cable is laced through manholes, with slack coils remaining at pulling points or in strategic locations, and it's never cut.
Step 1 in the process is ensuring you have a viable route, researched and verified, which is measured and pre-roped.
Step 2 is knowing the cable length plus slack coils, which need to be at least 70-80' of looped cable out of the ground so that splice trucks can eventually splice on or off the cable.
Often, plastic innerduct is utilized to facilitate the pull and protect the fiber cable from the sidewalls of concrete ducts.
On long runs, the reel carrier is typically located in the center, with 1/2 the cable pulled in one direction. After that 1/2 is laid, the rest of the reel is unloaded into a "figure-8" on the ground, and when the begining (end of the reel) is readhced, it's laced through in the other direction.
This method results in a completely continuious cable run without any splicing. It differs from telco trunks in that telco trunks are rarely pulled further than a few hundred feet, due to their weight.
