In reply to a post by Taras:

On our build, which was done from start to finish in a quarter (which is lightning fast for OR) there was a road that was ducted, those people complained about the single pole that was erected but the head of the deployment gang talked to them and it was ok. He said that if people knew before hand the benefits of faster internet you do get less issues.

Yeah, there were a few difficulties in this particular case:

1) It was on private land owned by a group of residents
2) The residents that controlled the pole had full access to the altnet fibre already. The pole was to supply an adjacent street, the residents of which had no say in the pole location
3) The line could have been dug in across a grassed area instead, but the altnet was (I can only presume from the lack of progress) not willing to do this

In this particular case, every time the altnet civils people went close to the private land, they'd have 2 or 3 residents descend upon them to give them a load of grief and a lecture on this private ownership. I was there for one of these and it wasn't a very pleasant conversation :/

It's worth noting that to my knowledge, OR have not got this far with their own deployment. I don't know if they would have more statutory powers to force a pole in where an altnet might not.

Edited by daern (Thu 12-Sep-24 11:15:23)

I feel for your neighbours, want faster internet and can't because of a few who have self interests. As you say the situation is a complex one which will take time to resolve

In reply to a post by daern:

In reply to a post by Taras:

On our build, which was done from start to finish in a quarter (which is lightning fast for OR) there was a road that was ducted, those people complained about the single pole that was erected but the head of the deployment gang talked to them and it was ok. He said that if people knew before hand the benefits of faster internet you do get less issues.

Yeah, there were a few difficulties in this particular case:

1) It was on private land owned by a group of residents
2) The residents that controlled the pole had full access to the altnet fibre already. The pole was to supply an adjacent street, the residents of which had no say in the pole location
3) The line could have been dug in across a grassed area instead, but the altnet was (I can only presume from the lack of progress) not willing to do this

In this particular case, every time the altnet civils people went close to the private land, they'd have 2 or 3 residents descend upon them to give them a load of grief and a lecture on this private ownership. I was there for one of these and it wasn't a very pleasant conversation :/

It's worth noting that to my knowledge, OR have not got this far with their own deployment. I don't know if they would have more statutory powers to force a pole in where an altnet might not.

No , it’s the same for everyone ….

AFAIK, the remote stand-alone SHE's are powered from a nearby DSLAM donor cabinet..the power is fed underground using a hybrid fibre/power cable that enters directly into the base of the SHE pod. Separate power and OLT markings do not really make sense for an Openreach SHE deployment, unless they doing something unique/bespoke/new