Purple duct

In our village purple ducts have been appearing taped to the bottom of poles, is this BTW or is it going to be an alnet?

An AltNet. CityFibre are known to use purple coloured ducting.

Perhaps check on bidb.uk to see if there are any street works showing.

Widanet have just started at the other end of the village and Airband were also claiming to be making a start but that has gone very quiet

That’s unfortunately relatively par for the course with these builds. Keep an eye on bidb for activity. Good luck.

Just to be pedantic: I think you mean Openreach, not BT Wholesale.

Openreach build and run the infrastructure between exchanges and homes.

BT Wholesale are just one of several providers who:
- run a backhaul network which links the exchanges
- have ADSL equipment in (some) exchanges
- resell connectivity to businesses which are not large enough to deal with Openreach directly and/or don't have their own backhaul network

As do others. Openreach duct is always grey.

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As do others. Openreach duct is always grey.

Yeah, NJUG recommend grey, white, green, black and purple for telecommunications. But 'BT' historically has been grey from days of yore. Green was historically CATV then of course NTL / Telewast / etc and now Virgin Media. But green conduit plenty popular with AltNets like our friends at G.Network who like to carve up entire neighbourhoods in the capital with it

As I passed in the car a team from Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 08-Jan-23 23:55:45)

Pretty, never had them here, it may have made the place look more colourful

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Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

When people talk about Ropemaker Street I always think of the old long gone BT building in Bunhill Row as I use to use Ropemaker Street as a shortcut. There also use to be a BT London Front Office (LFO) building in Featherstone Street that I went to a few times over the years.

To me, Purple was reserved for Motorway Communictions - or potentially major trunk road. With te exception of Scotland when it was also use for street lighting.

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To me, Purple was reserved for Motorway Communictions - or potentially major trunk road. With te exception of Scotland when it was also use for street lighting.

Driving on the A12 going North this morning…

Purple first, followed by orange. Then alternating purple and orange. So colourful! 😂

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Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

When people talk about Ropemaker Street I always think of the old long gone BT building in Bunhill Row as I use to use Ropemaker Street as a shortcut. There also use to be a BT London Front Office (LFO) building in Featherstone Street that I went to a few times over the years.

I was mistaken. It was Chiswell Street coming up the intersection with Finsbury Circus / Moorgate. Close but no cigar for me 😅

I never worked for BT but did do a lot of work opposite them on outsource deals with Global Services back in the day. So I felt like a native at BT Centre. Had a couple of events up in BT Tower which was a nice touch. Think it was Ben Verwaayen hosting at the time.

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I was mistaken. It was Chiswell Street coming up the intersection with Finsbury Circus / Moorgate. Close but no cigar for me 😅

I never worked for BT but did do a lot of work opposite them on outsource deals with Global Services back in the day. So I felt like a native at BT Centre. Had a couple of events up in BT Tower which was a nice touch. Think it was Ben Verwaayen hosting at the time.

Extremely close between Chiswell and Ropemaker Street so an easy mistake. Was never lucky enough to go up the BT tower, the nearest I got was the security people at the bottom where I could get keys to various BT building out of core hours. BT Centre was another thing, worked a lot in there during Ian Vallance's time and knew his chauffeur so often got a ride around the city in his car, it always amazed me he had a garage within the underground car park for his car.

Entertained quite a few international guests in BT Tower over the years. Had a couple of semi-formal dinners where the hosts were on on one ring and the guests on te other, so conversations could only last 30 seconds or so during the meal. Itwas great when somone was having a good few glasses and they stated revolving - if they were standing astride the divde, they would topple over, or if lookig out, and unaware, start to wonder what was happening!

I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

Edited by Zarjaz (Thu 12-Jan-23 18:12:57)

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Entertained quite a few international guests in BT Tower over the years. Had a couple of semi-formal dinners where the hosts were on on one ring and the guests on te other, so conversations could only last 30 seconds or so during the meal. Itwas great when somone was having a good few glasses and they stated revolving - if they were standing astride the divde, they would topple over, or if lookig out, and unaware, start to wonder what was happening!

Was that when it was open to the public or when BT had made it and internal only venue?

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I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

Last lump of crystal I got when working with BT. More like a lopsided ice hockey puck 🙈😂

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I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

Last lump of crystal I got when working with BT. More like a lopsided ice hockey puck 🙈😂

The only issue with that puck is that you can't eat it unlike the chocolate Zarjaz got 😎🤣

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The only issue with that puck is that you can't eat it unlike the chocolate Zarjaz got

The sad fact is that I didn’t eat the chocolate … but if someone wants to see what 20+ year old chocolate tastes like, feel free to ask.

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The sad fact is that I didn’t eat the chocolate … but if someone wants to see what 20+ year old chocolate tastes like, feel free to ask.

Certainly. Zarjaz: please can you eat the chocolate, and tell us what it tastes like?

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The sad fact is that I didn’t eat the chocolate

I get the same strange inquisitive look when I tell people I've still got an unopened bottle of rum I brought back from Barbados in 1988 🤣