New Additions to Telegraph Poles

Noticed some new hardware being fitted to telegraph poles in our local area. These "trays" have been fitted to any telegraph poles that have an existing CBT. These don't look like the "space expander" trays used to fit additional CBTs on busy poles (as you can see utilisation is not high here at all...)

VM are currently cabling/fibre-ing this area too, so I wondered if that was related. Do Virgin run OH drops?

Any clues? Something to do with Wi-Fi/5G perhaps?

https://imgur.com/a/S8I5c9E

The bit of hardware I'm referring to is the tray/bracket on the right-side of the pole next to the CBT.

Cheers!

Edited by themainframe (Thu 01-Sep-22 11:59:18)

Looks like another variety of standoff bracket to mount a distributor, just not the usual punched and bent stainless ones. I doubt it’s 5G or WiFi.

Time will tell.

I’d agree, looks like options on how it can be fixed too ……..

I’ve said before, and say again, all this shizzle up poles, no thought for the poor sods who have to climb them. The work position belt should be around the pole behind the DP/CBT …. that can’t be done here.

Time to buy shares in hoist companies

I would've preferred a point-to point dark fibre network, like Swisscom have installed, but what we've got instead are 110 completely different fibre networks clamouring over each other to overbuild.

If you think about it rationally for a moment its complete and utter madness. But hey ho.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

If you think about it rationally for a moment its complete and utter madness.

As was the 30 or so cable TV networks that Thatcher&co decided we needed; and 30 years later they've become one. "Competition" doesn't seem to work in fundamental infrastructure, we only have one set of water and gas pipes, and one set of electricity cables, one set of roads. Perhaps what we needed was Openreach and a direct competitor, whom were both in 99% of the UK with the 1% left split between them. But don't ask a politician, they're too busy being on TV.

The cable companies couldn't make it work when they had their own franchise areas . No chance all these altnets will survive

In reply to a post by witchunt:

The cable companies couldn't make it work when they had their own franchise areas . No chance all these altnets will survive

Agreed, mergers will happen in the next few years.

Imagine what the patching locations would look like for P2P fibre once a Virgin Media tech had been in there, though.

oh you cruel man 😂

Been saying similar for a few years now ….