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In reply to a post by Icaras:

Yes-Openreach have a wayleave team that will obtain an agreement from the landowner.

I wonder if an additional wayleave would be needed if one was already in place with BT for other BT equipment already on the verge

Depends on the agreement. If its for certain amount of equipment and fttp furniture would mean its in breach they'd need a new updated one

In reply to a post by Bazzaar:

So 21st century tech is being implemented in a 19th century way.
Odd
I thought all services had to come underground these days?

Because they are allowed to, and I think if you saw the cost difference as a private company you’d do the same. Openreach aren’t a charity, they will do things in the most cost effective way. The good news is (in my opinion, and I don’t work for a Openreach) the components being used for the FTTP build itself are of a very high quality. Money well spent in that respect.

You’d have them spend that money digging it all underground instead, but there’s not an unlimited pot of money.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

if you saw the cost difference as a private company you’d do the same.

As you say the cost difference is huge

1 pole roughly £600
1 metre of ducting dug in a main road £100+

well bt were working further up the street yesterday, so i spoke to a guy about it, he reckons a couple of weeks and ill be able to order which is good news, he said he would get me a leaflet but told me that it would be 300 mbps capable, so i said thought fttp was now 1000 mbps he said no, which was weird, anyway i got the leaflet and took it home, read it when i got home and it states on the leaflet 1000 mbps, hmm anyway well see son.

so much flexing from the resident sages!
see this behaviour on most forums

I'm going to need poles as all cables are buried (armoured lead ins)

Told it will probably happen at later date, my street was skipped for now as they want to do quick work

In reply to a post by Bazzaar:

so much flexing from the resident sages!
see this behaviour on most forums

What does this mean?

In reply to a post by nalla:

well bt were working further up the street yesterday, so i spoke to a guy about it, he reckons a couple of weeks and ill be able to order which is good news, he said he would get me a leaflet but told me that it would be 300 mbps capable, so i said thought fttp was now 1000 mbps he said no, which was weird, anyway i got the leaflet and took it home, read it when i got home and it states on the leaflet 1000 mbps, hmm anyway well see son.

1000Mbps depends on the exchange. I've had fibre for about 8 months but still don't have 1Gbps available, max is 300Mbps.

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

if you saw the cost difference as a private company you’d do the same.

As you say the cost difference is huge

1 pole roughly £600
1 metre of ducting dug in a main road £100+

If it were cheaper Openreach would be be burying the cables instead, they’ll just do whatever is cheapest. That one pole can serve a lot of houses, whereas you’d need a duct to every house.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

if you saw the cost difference as a private company you’d do the same.

As you say the cost difference is huge

1 pole roughly £600
1 metre of ducting dug in a main road £100+

If it were cheaper Openreach would be be burying the cables instead, they’ll just do whatever is cheapest. That one pole can serve a lot of houses, whereas you’d need a duct to every house.

I am pretty sure Dect was agreeing with you.

Although Openreach should be using a little bit more sense than just inital outlay. They shoud be factoring in maintenance, damage, accessibility, extreme weather, health and safety etc. Over the years the cheaper outlay could easily be overtaken by underground

From a personal level I don't want to see poles anywhere near my aready ugly newish estate, really hope they don't decide the stick them up around where I live. Also, again from a personal rather than business perspective think that where possible all cables should be burried, be that power or phone.