Sort of related ... Again Cityfibre civils contractors have been digging up many streets in the towns near where I live.
But last week a van turned up in our street (20yo estate) and started deploying fibre into the Openreach ducts. I checked with them and indeed it was on behalf of Cityfibre. I presume they do so with permission, and maybe it's even a specific agreement: a couple of years ago, Virgin dug new ducts through every street with access at every house and it caused chaos. I guess Cityfibre are going to be able to use the small duct to the houses too from the main route in the street. And as well as Virgin, we also had OR provision FTTP a couple of years ago, so that will be three high-speed services available here. I went a walkaround for work purposes with an OR engineer a while back in the city centre, he was looking for the T-node which wasn't in the place documented so had to pop a few lids. Every time there were other provider fibres in there, and he tutted and grumbled that while everyone else was "allowed to use" OR ducts, they were not permitted to use anyone else's. This seemed a little odd to me at the time, since if everyone could use OR ducts generally, there surely wouldn't be the need for so much digging. So perhaps this grant is only in certain areas, like city centres. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks, Network Manager, Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. ________________________________ From: uknof <uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk> on behalf of Paul Civati <p...@xciv.org> Sent: 17 June 2023 23:04 To: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk <uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk> Subject: Re: [uknof] I want fibre!!! On 17 Jun 2023, at 6:02 pm, Mike Jones <m...@mikejones.in> wrote: > I own a leasehold in a building owned by a local housing association. > I contacted the housing association who manage the building to ask if > CityFibre had been in contact with them and if so what the situation > was. Their response was "From what I understand we have been speaking > with Openreach to provide this service to our blocks and not > cityfibre." Following it up resulted in a response making it clear > they wanted me to just go away. I have read before that BT really do not like sharing ducts. It sounds to me like the freeholder has done some kind of deal and BT are to be the provider of choice. Judging by the endless nightmare stories coming out these days it seems the whole area of leasehold appears to have turned into the wild west over the last 10 years, where people can’t do the smallest things without permission and when they can it’s ££££. I would check the terms of your lease. -Paul-
