Something is happening?

This afternoon Open Reach's contractors were lifting manholes, rodding through and pulling a blue rope though the ducting between poles (we are on an overhead copper service).

I asked the guy lifting the lids and as far as he knew it was for fibre. It had to be really, unless OR are going to replace the aluminium cable with copper....

The Hawarden exchange area is on the OR list, so looks like they are making a start at the northerly end of the area.

OR appeared to be pulling in new ducting (black with yellow stripe) on the main fibre route along the A550 a couple of hundred yards away the week before last.

Fingers crossed!

The ‘black with yellow stripe’ isn’t ducting, it is either a multi stranded fibre, or multi tubed blown fibre conduit.

The blue rope brigade might even be there for an Altnet.

Some boxes round here are so busy, they tag their blue rope so others don’t use it.

Yee ha !

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

This afternoon Open Reach's contractors were lifting manholes, rodding through and pulling a blue rope though the ducting between poles (we are on an overhead copper service).

Good luck, in early 2021 I thought I was lucky when OR vans were parked in the road and lots of manholes up, with blue rope everywhere. Turned out the nearby mobile phone mast was having an upgrade. My 4G speeds improved, but not my broadband

Good job, for you, it is blue rope and not sisal or red rope. The blue may mean only Conserative voters will get i!

After what Liz and Kwasi did last week, I might not be on that list!

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

After what Liz and Kwasi did last week, I might not be on that list!

You speak for a lots of their previous supporters 😎

Yeah, the sisal is for masochists.

My vote went to Rishi Sunak. I just don't know what Liz's USP was.

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

I just don't know what Liz's USP was.

I can hazard a guess, but it won't be anything good.

Lets get off that depressing matter and back to the good news that fibre work may have started in your area

In reply to a post by dect:

Lets get off that depressing matter and back to the good news that fibre work may have started in your area

This is the good news, the rest is just pain!