In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

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LOL, I have seen that before, i think there would be a bit of a stink up if that happened here

In reply to a post by 4M2:

In my case that would certainly be a very satisfactory installation - also I guess I'll have wait and see if the existing UG copper can be replaced and it's route used for UG hybrid optical/copper.

Do they do a UG Fibre/Copper hybrid cable, I've only ever seen an overhead drop version?

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by 4M2:

In my case that would certainly be a very satisfactory installation - also I guess I'll have wait and see if the existing UG copper can be replaced and it's route used for UG hybrid optical/copper.

Do they do a UG Fibre/Copper hybrid cable, I've only ever seen an overhead drop version?

No they don’t Dect, as you say, O/H only …

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

No they don’t Dect, as you say, O/H only …

Thanks for confirming my suspicion and happy New Year to you Zarjaz

Happy New Year

Openreach's contractors Geo were back outside this morning and working on the DP which currently carries our overhead copper dropwire.
Going out afterwards, could see that they had been fitting CBTs with a coil of fibre to every pole in the area.

Guess that the next job will be to feed this fibre through the existing ducting to where ever it gets combined.

I will have to have another look tomorrow, since some poles appear to have more coils of fibre hanging off than would be needed for supplying the CBTs for the number of houses.

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Openreach's contractors Geo were back outside this morning and working on the DP which currently carries our overhead copper dropwire.
Going out afterwards, could see that they had been fitting CBTs with a coil of fibre to every pole in the area.

Guess that the next job will be to feed this fibre through the existing ducting to where ever it gets combined.

I will have to have another look tomorrow, since some poles appear to have more coils of fibre hanging off than would be needed for supplying the CBTs for the number of houses.

Cheers!

That what happened here, but I don't know if the coil of fibre was for ZZoomm or openreach. It took over a week before Fibre was available after the coils vanished, that was Zzoomm, not openreach. Openreach came online a few weeks after.

If everything goes right, you should be able to get fibre in a few weeks.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

If everything goes right, you should be able to get fibre in a few weeks.

I'd say that's a tad optimistic. You might be lucky, but 3 months would be a more reasonable expectation (and it could be longer than that).

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

If everything goes right, you should be able to get fibre in a few weeks.

I'd say that's a tad optimistic. You might be lucky, but 3 months would be a more reasonable expectation (and it could be longer than that).

Really? It was not that long here, but then maybe Zzoomm being here moved Openreach into doing it quicker as they don't want to lose people to ZZoomm when peoples contracts start running out

I'm talking Openreach.