was it 300m or 350m the max.

I don't think the cable would be problem - its the ducting. and for OR to be happy. The problem is getting the right group in OR - yes i know where this leads to.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

They used to do a 300m connectorised cable on special a few years back.

Its the rodding length thats the issue not the connectorised cable.

You can't really do do overhead even though OR can order 300m spoils of fibre to conect a premise because you need to insert 12+ poles

Except it wouldn’t be 12+ poles .. approx 50m between carrier poles, so 6 poles required.
Of course this is all based on the OP’s guess at distance.

In reply to a post by Taras:

OR can supply joint boxes as this would be classed a new build (effectively)

In these cases I am not sure they would provide the Stakka boxes for free or even the ducting, they do for FTTPod but for that your paying £10k+ for the privilege.

that was based on 25m span lol.......

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

In reply to a post by Taras:

OR can supply joint boxes as this would be classed a new build (effectively)

In these cases I am not sure they would provide the Stakka boxes for free or even the ducting, they do for FTTPod but for that your paying £10k+ for the privilege.

its a case of a lot of not sures at this point. its a good discussion as we will find more and more cases like this as fttp fill in becomes the norm

ECC are not billed randomly - you are told that extra work is needed and a quote is supplied.

It is possible that Sky managed not to pass this on, or impact of a conversation financially was not made aware to them.

Issues like this may be why Openreach is abandoning some difficult streets for a period of months or maybe years e.g.
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/ten-point-drop-i...

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

ECC are not billed randomly - you are told that extra work is needed and a quote is supplied.

It is possible that Sky managed not to pass this on, or impact of a conversation financially was not made aware to them.

No one said ECCs were random, the area in question was in a stop sell for copper and the fact that the property had been in theory enabled for FTTP caused the issue when Sky presented the £6K ECC quote (if I remember correctly). I think in the end Openreach agreed that the property could go back to copper. I'm sure if someone is interested they can find the story somewhere on ISPReview site.

Here is the article Openreach and the Case of a Tricky FTTP Transition Problem

Didn't remember the story exactly but it was more than 3.5 years ago

Edited by PCJM40 (Mon 02-Mar-26 10:07:57)

Thanks for the replies everyone. The land is owned by my parents so that simplifies things a bit. The existing copper line actually runs overground - openreach bodged this as part of a repair many many years ago so the cable runs nicely along the bottom of a fence all the way up the field!

It wouldn't necessarily be a difficult job for us to dig a trench for OR to lay the rest of the equipment in but it's knowing who to get hold of at OR.

For now I guess we will have to sit tight and see what happens. I know Starlink is an option but would pain me to see them giving Musk any money.

It wouldn't necessarily be a difficult job for us to dig a trench for OR to lay the rest of the equipment in but it's knowing who to get hold of at OR.

You don’t need to get hold of Openreach … they work for the service providers. What you need to do is find a service provider who will go above and beyond … and who will accept an order from you.

repair many many years ago so the cable runs nicely along the bottom of a fence all the way up the field!

This is a perfect example of how excessive pressure causes bodged repairs, and once bodged, and line tests OK .. the remedial action needed never gets done. The box gets ticked … end of story.

know Starlink is an option but would pain me to see them giving Musk any money.

Well said.