copper cables will be removed at some point

So says the Openreach bloke who have parked his van just outside my house. He is doing a house down the road and I asked him if the copper cables are going to be removed, and he said yes as more fibre is installed and copper becomes redundant. So now there are six houses in my street that have fibre. I am hoping if more people go fibre they will go to ZZoomm and not Openreach, sadly people go for the easiest option

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

So says the Openreach bloke who have parked his van just outside my house. He is doing a house down the road and I asked him if the copper cables are going to be removed, and he said yes as more fibre is installed and copper becomes redundant.

I suspect that will depend on the cost. Not a cheap exercise.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

So says the Openreach bloke who have parked his van just outside my house. He is doing a house down the road and I asked him if the copper cables are going to be removed, and he said yes as more fibre is installed and copper becomes redundant.

I suspect that will depend on the cost. Not a cheap exercise.

Just leave it, it'll get nicked and sold for scrap soon enough.

Interesting. They may as well remove the copper from our lane as everyone is on FTTP now.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I suspect that will depend on the cost. Not a cheap exercise.

I would have thought it would be best to do it while putting the fibre in place He said himself it is looking like a strange tree with the amount of cables coming from the pole. I think there are around 9 or 10 houses connected to it, so if we all had fibre, that would be 20ish cables in total, it already looks a mess. Not only that, but I also said to him about how low some of them are, he did not say a lot about that only that some of them are a bit low and need to be sorted, and he wrote something on his tablet. I doubt anything will be done. Not sure what house he went to, but it was down the road, not up, but i can't see another fibre from here, but here was there for a long time unless someone had a fault, but I did him get some cable out of the van.

It has already been reviewed within BT and they are commited to removing as much as possible in a controlled way and timeframe. Yes, it is costly, but if copper prices stay the same (as they were a couple of years back) the net benefit to BT is enormous...What they want to avoid though, is swamping the market casuing scrap copper prices to plummet.

Maybe not.

We can now order broadband serices which run on the copper cables long after the PSTN shutdown.

Search SOGEA.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

He said himself it is looking like a strange tree with the amount of cables coming from the pole. I think there are around 9 or 10 houses connected to it, so if we all had fibre, that would be 20ish cables in total, it already looks a mess.

There are 6 houses connected to our pole, at least 3 of us have FTTP mine is Copper and FTTP, there are 6 cables going to pole.

In reply to a post by Sandgrounder:

Maybe not.

We can now order broadband serices which run on the copper cables long after the PSTN shutdown.

Search SOGEA.

Well they are redundant to the people who have had fibre installed, i doubt they ever go back to copper

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There are 6 houses connected to our pole, at least 3 of us have FTTP mine is Copper and FTTP, there are 6 cables going to pole.

There are a fair few houses in this street and not many poles to be honest,