@Baharfoadi every property has easements which are registered with the city. Those easements allow access to your property for the purpose of installing and maintaining equipment. The easements permit companies such as power and gas companies, and telecom companies such as Rogers, Bell and others to access your property, but only within the easements themselves. If a company requires access to your property, beyond the easement, then they require your permission.
If you now have an RG-6 cable running over your driveway, then its most likely that a portion of your driveway is covered by an easement, permitting installation of such a cable.
If you consult your property map, you might see an existing easement marked on the property map. They typically extend from the road, towards the house, until you hit the external water valve which will normally be in front of the house, or until you hit the cable pedestal. From those points onwards towards the house, that is your property. So, that is approximate. You would have to consult your property map for the exact measurements.
The problem with the easements is that employees from various companies think they own your property and that the easements give them carte blanche to do whatever they want. That is regrettable to say the least. Personal opinion, city staff, from cities all over Canada should be dictating strict terms for access to these easements and inspecting the work to determine if it falls within acceptable limits and behaviour. The fact that this doesn't appear to happen results in techs doing what ever they want, regardless of sensibility or lack thereof.
In your specific case, with a cable run over your driveway, I'd expect that cable to last until the next grass cutting or until a snowplow clears your driveway. Good-bye cable.....
What probably should have happened, with your permission, is that the tech should have run an RG-11 cable, from the pedestal, along your house to the back fence, and then along the back fence to the neighbours yard and then to your neighbours external Network Interface Device (NID), which is the grey Rogers box that sits near the external power meter. All of that cable should have been placed to prevent any tripping hazards or hazards to any pets. It would be out of sight, out of mind until Rogers burial crew comes along to bury a new cable to your neighbour's house. That takes longer to do, and uses a much longer higher quality cable. This might be a case of a tech not having enough time to do that, or just taking a short cut. If you were not home at the time to grant permission to run a much longer cable, then the tech might have felt that he had no choice but to stay within the easement, despite the fact that the cable will probably have a short life.
When that happens, I suspect that the burial crew will make a cut, along the bottom of your drive way to run the new cable to the neighbours yard. There will probably be a shallow cut in the lawn to bury the cable. When the cable is in place, the burial crew should seal the driveway cut with an asphalt sealer.
Before that happens, Rogers requires a locate service to mark any of the buried cables, power lines and gas lines on your property and your neighbours property. That might take a few weeks to finally happen. Since this is your neighbours service, he will have to push Rogers to get this done. I suspect that its not going to happen until sometime next year, but, you never know.
Here's the page for cable burials:
https://www.rogers.com/support/internet/cable-burial-process
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