Is this a sign of FTTP or not?

Hello,

We don't have any altNETs operating in our immediate neighbourhood and Openreach FTTP isn't planned according to the Openreach checker.

However, we've had some works recently on the telegraph pole and some new "equipment" has appeared.

https://ibb.co/vqxfvPZ
https://ibb.co/17spgw7

Does anyone know what this equipment is and any relation to an impending FTTP install?

Please and thanks,

P.

that is indeed fttp equipment. the box at the left on top of the pole with "teats" is what each household gets connected to and the hanging cables supply the box when the fibre network is all connected together

Edited by threelegs (Sat 04-Mar-23 18:51:14)

Looks like Oen Reach CBT the alt nets I have seen use the HT aerial fibre nodes

As others have said, the CBT's are OR, the photo isn't clear, but cable will have a yellow stripe, next will be the yellow "Caution Overhead Fibre" label nailed to pole.

The one on the left of the pole with the white bracket looks like a netomnia box, they've added them around here alongside the OR ones that arent on white brackets. On the bundled cable, or at the bottom of the pole, there might be a label that contains the work order number and more details about who it's for.

They generally don't leave a bundle of fibre hanging there without something to say who owns it so that when the next group of contractors rock up to complete the work they don't mistakenly hook one providers fibre into someone else's network

You can check local works via https://bidb.uk/ too. It will probably contain a few pole replacements and/or blockage clearances.

Edited by Skie (Sat 04-Mar-23 23:16:41)

In reply to a post by burble:

As others have said, the CBT's are OR, the photo isn't clear, but cable will have a yellow stripe, next will be the yellow "Caution Overhead Fibre" label nailed to pole.

Just noticed today, our pole was replaced a few weeks back, the new pole doesn't have a "Caution Overhead Fibre" yellow label, "we're all doomed" (said in best private Frazier accent)

In reply to a post by burble:

In reply to a post by burble:

As others have said, the CBT's are OR, the photo isn't clear, but cable will have a yellow stripe, next will be the yellow "Caution Overhead Fibre" label nailed to pole.

Just noticed today, our pole was replaced a few weeks back, the new pole doesn't have a "Caution Overhead Fibre" yellow label, "we're all doomed" (said in best private Frazier accent)

I didn't know that "we're all doomed" was part of the local Seattle vernacular. It was part of the vocabulary of Pte. Frazer (played by John Laurie) in Dad's Army.

I had to post similar question, surprised is no blogs or articles showing people what the FTTP pole stuff looks like, as when I googled I only found generic images used on news articles.

Just a bit of a bizarre situation as the Openreach team replied to an e-mail stating our postcode was not in any roll-out plan, and this is the same as the check on the Openreach website.

Sorry, not sure how to reply to more than one user - it's not Netomnia either. Their website shows they have no presence in our County at all.

Openreach's techs haven't returned - it's been over a fortnight and the cables/fibres are still dangling loosely off the poles.

Small fttp projects are not part of the wider openreach build program, particularly but not exclusively where there maybe external funding.
Not saying this is an example of such though.