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My tiny village is fed from the exchange at Brandsby MYBBY 1.5 miles away. The Brandsby exchange is fed from Easingwold MYEAO. which is in the process of activating fibre and Bransdby is down for some time next year. The line from Bransdby is underground to a manhole at the top of the village and then overhead following the power lines.
Recently Bt has been working on the underground cabling and I believe pulling through a ducting for the fibre optic cable.
There is probably only myself wanting fibre so what are the chances of Bt eventually putting in the fibre cable?
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Believe you are part of the North Yorkshire project, so depends on what they are planning.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6138-north-yorksh...
Recently agreed to more spending to increase fibre coverage.
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they wouldn't pull the ducting through for exercise, so I expect some fibre will be coming through the tube in due course.
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Thanks for the feedback, it looks like wait and see.
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There is probably only myself wanting fibre so what are the chances of Bt eventually putting in the fibre cable?
Slim unless they're getting some cash from the government and council to do it.
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A further question. I have noticed ugly green cabinets have appeared in the local market town. Some are visually quite intrusively positioned. As my village is in an ANOB does the fibre kit have to be in a cabinet or can the existing BT manhole be used?
Thanks
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Do you mean an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) ?
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Doh, yes you are righty AONB.
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Are there already BT phone cabinets? Fibre cabinets are installed alongside the existing cabinets.
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They are installed within a 100 yards, they are not always alongside.
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100 yards is alongside 
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Are there already BT phone cabinets? Fibre cabinets are installed alongside the existing cabinets.
No, the phone connections are all in a manhole on the grass verge.
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So this is the "manhole at the top of the village"? I would hope they will install the fibre connections in a similar manhole alongside - or within 100 yards, anyway.
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Cabinets are not in manholes, theres a couple of exceptions, like at Heathrow, but then these are chambers, not manholes.
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Being a rural man I call them manholes, its where all the phone connections are.
So I'll rephrase. Can the high speed fibre kit go in a chamber?
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On the FTTC roll-out no - Openreach do not do that, so only if FTTP is economically viable will it be installed in a pavement chamber
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Thank you all
As we have overhead cables in the village I am assuming it will be FTTC and there will be a large green cabinet close to the chamber
Correct?
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No, with FTTC the new cabinet will normally be close to an existing cabinet.
So look around your village/area to see where the existing cabinets are - the 'BT Availability Checker' should say which cabinet you are currently using.
For rural properties unfortunately the cabinet can be a long distance away which is a problem...
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