Purple duct

In our village purple ducts have been appearing taped to the bottom of poles, is this BTW or is it going to be an alnet?

An AltNet. CityFibre are known to use purple coloured ducting.

Perhaps check on bidb.uk to see if there are any street works showing.

Widanet have just started at the other end of the village and Airband were also claiming to be making a start but that has gone very quiet

That’s unfortunately relatively par for the course with these builds. Keep an eye on bidb for activity. Good luck.

Just to be pedantic: I think you mean Openreach, not BT Wholesale.

Openreach build and run the infrastructure between exchanges and homes.

BT Wholesale are just one of several providers who:
- run a backhaul network which links the exchanges
- have ADSL equipment in (some) exchanges
- resell connectivity to businesses which are not large enough to deal with Openreach directly and/or don't have their own backhaul network

As do others. Openreach duct is always grey.

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

As do others. Openreach duct is always grey.

Yeah, NJUG recommend grey, white, green, black and purple for telecommunications. But 'BT' historically has been grey from days of yore. Green was historically CATV then of course NTL / Telewast / etc and now Virgin Media. But green conduit plenty popular with AltNets like our friends at G.Network who like to carve up entire neighbourhoods in the capital with it

As I passed in the car a team from Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 08-Jan-23 23:55:45)

Pretty, never had them here, it may have made the place look more colourful

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

When people talk about Ropemaker Street I always think of the old long gone BT building in Bunhill Row as I use to use Ropemaker Street as a shortcut. There also use to be a BT London Front Office (LFO) building in Featherstone Street that I went to a few times over the years.