In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by MHC:

If they cannot achieve the required clearance for an FTTP drop,then how are they achieving it with your phone line?

We currently have two drops to our house - one 43 metres and the second 45 metres in length.

They can replace the pole with one taller than standard - that is quite common and a relatively simple task.


As for dual use poles - why can they not continue to use it? They is less danger with fibre than with copper.

I think the point is his copper and power are supplied by a pole his side of the road, but the fibre would be expected to come from one the other side of the road, and that's the one that isn't high enough.

Why replacing that would be an issue I have no idea .

The pole on the far side of the road is brand new (well, 15 months old) and they've already strung the black/yellow cable and put on all the boxes, etc. As is common in Cornwall, the power and phone lines here are a real rats' nest and they've had to put in a lot of poles along here to avoid sharing, not to mention going underground where HT lines cross the road. The guys who did the work seemed to think putting the whole thing underground would have been a better idea - I've not even mentioned all the trees the fibre line goes through!

It is 5.9 M for new stuff.

As for dual use poles - why can they not continue to use it? They is less danger with fibre than with copper.

Not sure about where the poster in question is, but where the power is supplied by SSE, then they will not grant a licence for the attachment of any new line plant to their poles.