Could it be that ex-Kelly 'Engineers' are being employed by Openreach hence the increased (?) reports of shoddy FTTP installs?

Or pressure of workload ?

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Or pressure of workload ?

Contractors back working on my install today and when talking to them asked "have you been isolating at home or did you work"

He replied he hasn't had a day off throughout COVID-19 and worked every day.

WOW kudos to them.

They weren’t the only ones ....

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

They weren’t the only ones ....

Thank you for you're services mate.

Thanks to you (and many more) essential workers NHS staff etc were kept online.

I was told by a friend in Openreach that contractors still aren’t doing FTTP installed and it is direct labour only.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

I was told by a friend in Openreach that contractors still aren’t doing FTTP installed and it is direct labour only.

Depends on what you guy's call direct labour only.

Had a team at mine again today, one guy was splicing very near my house while others were messing about in joint boxes / culverts down the village a mile away. "Is that labour only"

4 vans in total with around 8 to 10 blokes.

Total Fibre was the name of the contractors, Guy from Middlesbrough doing the splicing and checking for light and the others were from Wakefield and Penistone Nr Barnsley.

Edited by busterboy (Tue 07-Jul-20 23:17:09)

I think what is being said, is that actual installs, the final drop, lead in, and ONT, is being done by Openreach .... unless this is on new build (unoccupied) estates, which might be done be either/or.

Contractors are working on provision of fibre network too, fitting and lightening up the nodes in the network.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

Your training was incorrect.

If Openreach are using bend insensitive fibre (and they would be morons not to) then none of the bends in the photograph of this install are anywhere near being of concern.

You can get 5mm bend radius fibre now. That means you can coil it around your fingers and it will still work just fine. That sort of fibre would "kink" if you took it beyond 5mm and remember they said bends where fine, not that kinks where fine; big difference.

As such the training was likely correct, fibre is no where near as sensitive as it was and even back then it was a lot less sensitive than some people make out.

Yes but 5mm bend radius fibre has been a thing for several years now. I suggest you try bending a kevlar reinforced fibre cable tighter than an 5mm bend radius. It is actually quite difficult and second it tends to kink first, at which point it is no longer a bend.

If you use bend insensitive fibre as long as you don't kink it then you need no worry about bends.

There is an awful lot of rubbish about fibre sensitivity to bends out there.