Regarding being next to a street lamp, my local FTTC is next to a Street/Road sign post, complete with light and signs originally.

To connect power to the FTTC, because of financial aspects and agreements apparently, all of the signs and the lamp were removed, leaving a BARE Street/Road Sign Post, with its power now connected to the FTTC from inside the post- and I watched much of it being done!

None of Signs were replaced on other adjacent poles, raising questions as to the legality of some of the road infrastructure - No Warning Signs.

I suspect there may be greater problems with your street lamp.

Edited by deleted (Wed 18-May-16 14:24:52)

It's a bit of a strange situation with mine as they've resurfaced all of the roads and walkways intersecting with the fibre cabinet and replaced the street lighting to the new LED ones, all within the past 6 months, yet Openreach seem to have not taken advantage of that.
I honestly have no idea what the issue is with mine. They could've easily installed power lines or fibre cables to the cabinet then, they could easily do it now (the road isn't commonly accessed and there's at least 3, so it's not like they're going to get in the way if they choose to block it off for a day or two).

I'm thinking maybe my cabinet isn't going to earn them a huge sum of money from being fibre-enabled as half of the connected premises (including myself) will only be able to receive <25mbps.

If the road has been resurfaced the council may have issued a section 58 notice which would prevent BT from digging up the roadway for perhaps three to five years..

Thanks for the response!

It'd be incredibly annoying if that is the case. I believe one of the pathways (which the cabinet is next to) which joins up to the main road alongside one of the smaller resurfaced ones is still waiting to be resurfaced - do you know if theres any chance that the power/fibre cables can/will go below a footpath? Because if not then I may be waiting another 5 years!

Edit:
Just found this on my local council website on the section 58 notices page:

In special cases statutory undertakers can dig up a road if ... they need to provide a new service to a customer

Could that also apply to fibre cabinets?

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Wed 18-May-16 19:19:59)

They can go under almost anything, what will happen depends on how the power company decides to supply the power to the cabinet.

On the doing it all at the same time, depends on whether notice was give to all the utility firms and whether that lined up with what the roll-out was doing in the area.

In special cases statutory undertakers can dig up a road if ... they need to provide a new service to a customer

Could that also apply to fibre cabinets?

Certainly not in the case of Lambeth where a section 58 order has prevented/delayed BT installing the fibre feed to our community gap funded AIO cabinet. All very frustrating. I hope you manage to get your connection soon.

Power and fibre connected. LA objected to some of the proposed work required to connect the cabs together , hence the delay

How were you able to find out that that is the issue?

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Fri 20-May-16 22:49:25)

Just lucky, I guess

Guess that is still the case

pushed back now to

30-Sep-16

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