FTTP via Poles

Lit Fibre is taking orders in my street and connections are from poles which carry copper phone wires. Openreach also claim to be working towards making FTTP available in the next 2 years. Can 2 different suppliers use the same pole for fibre distribution? Its already looking very crowded at the top of the pole outtside my house!

Expect pole 'busyness". Its a known fact of life with PIA.

Yes.

Openreach can replace their copper overhead wires with "hybrid" cables (copper+fibre in a single cable) so as not to increase pole loading. But I don't think an altnet could do that without permission from OR.

Thanks for the info. I hadn't heard of hybrid cables before. Lit Fibre are running their fibre so close to the copper lines that you have to look hard to see them!

In reply to a post by candlerb:

But I don't think an altnet could do that without permission from OR.

Mr AltNet would just run their new fibre drop and not give a toss about existing copper. Some of these poles you see now are heaving.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Mr AltNet would just run their new fibre drop and not give a toss about existing copper. Some of these poles you see now are heaving.

Lot of complaints around new poles:
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/9408-poles-sprin...

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

In reply to a post by candlerb:

But I don't think an altnet could do that without permission from OR.

Mr AltNet would just run their new fibre drop and not give a toss about existing copper. Some of these poles you see now are heaving.

+1

I had a dual fibre/copper overhead cable fitted three years ago No thicker than the former copper only line. My understanding is that the dual cables are no longer fitted.

Totally understandable given that the property will have FTTP and (new copper) would be kind of pointless now with WLR/PSTN national stop sell a few months away.

Mr Altnet is not allowed to touch the copper drop wire under any circumstances so even if they wanted to remove it, they can't.