Connectorised FTTP

With connectorised FTTP connections, where does the legacy copper connection merge with the fibre feed?

It doesn’t. The existing copper remains completely separate to the new fibre infrastructure. In theory you could order an FTTP service without affecting your existing copper based services.

Completely, totally and utterly separate.

The other two answers are correct. But .... if you receive an overhead supply, the fibre cable between CBT (connectorised block terminal) and external splice point will have a single copper pair joined to it, this may, or may not be used to provide the existing copper to the property.

Just to clarify what Zarjaz has said the overhead cable is a combined single fibre and copper pair so the different technolgies may run close together for a distance but they are still separate and never the twain shall meet.

In reply to a post by zag164:

In theory you could order an FTTP service without affecting your existing copper based services.

Not just in theory - this is exactly what I did.

..and it can also be the case that overhead cable (fibre+copper pair in one) is used even if your line is fed underground, as mine did.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BkcB6J5zszVsHatq8

This shows the combined OH fibre+copper cable

At a guess, Openreach haven’t used that copper pair to provide your voice service.

More often it gets used UG because the installer hasn’t the right length UG FTTP cable to hand when required.

You're right, they haven't, my old pair was left intact although I don't use it.

The other reason to use OH cable could be that my FTTP line starts on a CBT up a pole, then goes underground to me.

Hi and thanks everyone for the answers to my curiosity
I probably should have explained my connection arrives by a drop from a connectorised termination.
It's very hard to trace visually because of hedges and twigs, but I understand from the termination it runs down a pole into an U/G duct for 20 metres or so, back up another fairly inaccessible pole and overhead from there.
Zen FTTP via OR