In reply to a post by MHC:

I know a couple who actually work for business competitors and they ensure business and personal lives are separate. Their employers may well require individual FTTP services for each of them and such restrictions would mean that their personal/residential is supplied on a third.

Nice juggling of conflicts there.

In reply to a post by bowdon:

I also wonder how long OR will allow residential homes to buy 2 FTTP services because it could cause ununanticipated capacity issues at the CBT on the pole/manhole.

They have 2 spares at each splitter, and I'd guess they have spare fibers to the splitter too. Given openreach in many places won't have 100% takeup I doubt it would be an issue in many places,

I guess in the future they could replace single port ONT with multiport ones, and work a way to make this a none issue for the ISPs

In reply to a post by mwarby:

They have 2 spares at each splitter, and I'd guess they have spare fibers to the splitter too. Given openreach in many places won't have 100% takeup I doubt it would be an issue in many places,

Whats the typical turn around time for extra CBT ports to be made available on an existing PON?

In reply to a post by MHC:

G.fast is obviously a waste of money too for someone who cannot even justify 80/20.

I know it. But the G.fast 330/50 downloading and uploading are pretty quickest than FTTC 80/20 for large TS video.

It's also not unheard of that these services provided by employers might have nothing to do with providing internet, but they use Openreach products in the last mile. I've worked with companies that provided ADSL and later FTTC (and sometimes ethernet) to their employees that had home offices that weren't internet connections, they were IP VPN that terminated in the company data centre.

In reply to a post by mwarby:

They have 2 spares at each splitter, and I'd guess they have spare fibers to the splitter too. Given openreach in many places won't have 100% takeup I doubt it would be an issue in many places,

I guess in the future they could replace single port ONT with multiport ones, and work a way to make this a none issue for the ISPs

I thought everyone will be on a fttp connection as copper is being phased out. So every house on the street will need a space on the CBT.

I'm not sure how easy it is for OR to add extra CBT capacity?

Ah yes.. The typical " Why do you need another FTTP service". How about i do me and you do you, I asked a specific question to the already helpful people in the thread.

And i couldn't care if you think it's a waste of money, It's my money

In reply to a post by bowdon:

I thought everyone will be on a fttp connection as copper is being phased out. So every house on the street will need a space on the CBT.

I'm not sure how easy it is for OR to add extra CBT capacity?

Not everybody has an active Openreach service currently - instead choosing Virgin Media or an AltNet, and not everybody is going to have an active Openreach service in the future.

In reply to a post by jpm:

Not everybody has an active Openreach service currently - instead choosing Virgin Media or an AltNet, and not everybody is going to have an active Openreach service in the future.

You're right that we'll have a much more diversified phone network system than we did before.

But I'm specifically talking about OR, and whether there are altnets around or VM they are going to want to make sure that there is an OR fibre based place on the CBT for everyone within reach of that distribution point.

If OP gets 2 services served by the OR CBT point. Then OR has stopped orders for copper lines and are nudging people to full fibre connections then unless a CBT is easily added, someone on the street will miss out.

bowden

You can serve 2 ports on an ONT from 1 CBT port. This is what the multiport ONTs are for.

One ONT with up to 4 ports, one Fibre back to the CBT, uses 4 streams back across the PON so PON capacity may be impacted but spread across all the capacity on the PON.

Only restriction I know of is each ONT can only have the TV streams on port 1. But if the others are for business use this doesn't matter.