Openreach works

There has been quite a bit of openreach works in my local area, there is no planned upgrades to the exchange. Yet Openreach has been doing alot of cable and pole work in the area, the road that they are working on now passed by today and op where laying a new cable into the ground via the ducts, large roll of cable with the vans.

Will see if i can ask them if i see them again what the upgrade is for, as im wondering if its laying fibre before FTTC is enabled in the future as in my county the next 2 exchanges will be done soon.

Any way to find out from the Openreach site what the work is for, or would that information be private?

thanks

you could ask one of them. 99% of openworld staff ive ever talked to in the field have been quite forthcomeing when asked.

sorry openreach. sorry its been a long day

openworld

the ones that dig holes,

I guess we get closeworld following a week later

Proably will be monday before there back unless they work weekends.

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sorry openreach. sorry its been a long day

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From what I understood of their recent press release, they were reorganising all their resources so they could fix the damage done by the rioters around the country.

Based on the info we had, we were under the impression that all other work was being put on hold until the repair work was done. When we contacted Openreach they said pretty much the same again, and said to expect at least a 3-4 week delay on their other projects.

The company said that it planned to operate as usual but in some cases disruptions in services might occur. BT Openreach, which is BT�s infrastructure arm, said that will focus its resources on repair work rather than facilitating new connections.

�There has been some impact on the service we are able to provide our customers, including missed appointments, where our engineers have been unable to access affected areas,� BT Openreach said.

With regards to enquiring about work in your local area, you can submit an enquiry to them here: http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/submitFeedback....
Failing that, do as you suggested, ask the engineers.

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My part of the county didnt see any rioters damage, so BT would have continued as normal in my county.

Have sent a enquiry to them, will also register on there site, thanks guys.

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My part of the county didnt see any rioters damage, so BT would have continued as normal in my county.

Have sent a enquiry to them, will also register on there site, thanks guys.

Unless of course BT sent the engineers from your county to areas of the country that did have riots which is I suspect what they would have done in order to fix things as quickly as possible. They would probably keep enough engineers to do repairs but would send anyone who does "new" work to fix the stuff that was damaged by riots.

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In reply to a post by ccxo:

My part of the county didnt see any rioters damage, so BT would have continued as normal in my county.

Have sent a enquiry to them, will also register on there site, thanks guys.

Unless of course BT sent the engineers from your county to areas of the country that did have riots which is I suspect what they would have done in order to fix things as quickly as possible. They would probably keep enough engineers to do repairs but would send anyone who does "new" work to fix the stuff that was damaged by riots.

This was the impression I got from Openreach. There is a lot of damage that needs to be repaired and they are reorganising their resources to deal with the damage. We were told that all other work is on hold until the damage is all repaired.

I dont think there has been much damage to the network. A few cabinets have been incinerated and some cabling burned but not the sort or wide scale damage they would get over a bad winter storm.
The main problem has been restriced access to some areas during the days of unrest /rioting/looting creating a backlog of work, plus restricted access to damaged areas due to unsafe buildings/structures.

if you say where it is someone may know !

The guys from Openreach where back today, stopped by and had a chat, turns out that some thiefs stole a large section of copper cable from underground ducts which the OR guys are working as fast as possible to repair, while other OR guys connect the other end up.

Really nice guy from OR, did say to stop by and ask any OR workers about there work happy to answer, he did mention there was a lorry putting fibre about but didnt say where though there is one exchange that is due to go live on sep 11 so most likely working there.