Just looks like joints/splices on a piece of fibre

Splitters are hidden in ground in a green metal box on the poles in overhead deployment areas

First two photos are just copper joints and cables I�m afraid.

Last one is obviously fibre. The pole marked with the yellow label must have fibre on it somewhere but I can�t see it in your photos.

but I can�t see it in your photos

Fibre is very thin see Icaras, you�ll find that out on the training

My Fruit & Fibre has big pieces.

I think you�ll find that would be raisin the light loss reading too much.

Fibre is very thin see Icaras, you�ll find that out on the training

All of the poles except the one where I thought it came out of the ground have the yellow plates saying "Caution Fibre Overhead". One suspects that they haven't finished the installation yet.

My friend up there says there is a "box thing" a bit further up the road. Need to re-visit and maybe take some photos in better light

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

but I can�t see it in your photos

Fibre is very thin see Icaras, you�ll find that out on the training

Haha, indeed. I have worked with it before in the company actually, many years ago.

On one of the photos I think I can see something related to fibre at the top of the pole but it�s hard to make out.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Openreach don't break into an existing fibre tube and the fibres held within, or if the newest method slice through the Kevlar cable and split out 1 of 44 individual fibres.

Note that they can and do drag cables up from the bottom of the ocean and splice into one of the dark fibres while the rest are live, then put the whole lot back down at the bottom of the ocean, while they also lay a branch to somewhere else. I watched some program on Quest I think randomly on a weekend where they did that last year. So it is perfectly possible for Openreach to do that if they want to as a fibre on a telegraph pole is a whole lot easier to work with than one on the bottom of the ocean.

The cost of losing the cable makes the expense of hauling it up and fixing it viable - of course if money were no object the same could be done for you, but would you be prepared to pay?

Good point. A trawl through this thread proves you right.