It is nothing to do with the contractors. It is down to BT. THe contractors only carryout work for BT. If there are blockages encountered by the contractor they stop work and notify BT. It is then down to BT to liase with the local council and optain the required permissions assuming that BT wish to keep that cabinet in the program. THe contractor cxan do nothing until BT instruct them.

Why are you contacting this company?THey asre BT's contractor. You need to contact BT. THe contractor can do nothing until BT instruct them.

Because for the massive sum of less than £30pcm the OP is entitled to teh moon on a stick. Surely you realise that?

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The FTTP duct blocks are a different issue, as the 7 hours is the time to do the drop to getting fibre inside a property and ducting to a property is a lot small and more prone to collapse as it is often little more than a simple tube

Also as this is a commercial rollout if the cost of clearing the ducts meant they could do two cabinets elsewhere, BT probably would.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Yes, they have tried to pull in the blown fibre tube, but have met blockages, a collapsed duct maybe. Once they have cleared said route, and pulled in the BFT, then, they will blow the fibre through it and make the relevant splices to provide a feed to the DSLAM cab.

Why are you getting so uptight when you clearly don't understand what is fully involved ?

why havent BT been maintaining the ducts?

In reply to a post by MHC:

Only three months! In a local high street British Gas (or whatever they are called) were doing works for over 6 months. BT needed to do some work in the same area but were told "No, you need to wait until they have finished and then you can start 3 months after!!

isnt this counter productive?

in sweden and other EU countries they got rollout costs down by having the telecoms deliberatly do their work when gas or water work was done to save time and money.

Who knows. Much of BT's underground line plant is ancient and 25 to 50 years old so is not in good condition. Probably ok unless disturbed but with the high level of gas & water works and cable TV works much of it has suffered and pulling fibre in will cause further problems

Given the general poor condition of it one would have though a general renewal program would have been put in place similar to what the water & gas companies are doing but it seems not. Pulling fibre into old and crumbling ducts with old copper cables in them as well seems to be a very short term measure

I don't see BT pulling much fibre at all, the tubing is pulled/pushed but the fibres are blown, being the delicate little creatures that they are