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I've noticed FTTP is now available to people served by wooden poles in my area. Metal poles or underground mean no FTTP. I guess attaching a box to a metal pole

I've noticed FTTP is now available to people served by wooden poles in my area. Metal poles or underground mean no FTTP. I guess attaching a box to a metal pole is an insurmountable engineering challenge in the UK. So some people have the choice between VDSL, FTTP, Cable, and others have only VDSL, or 5G I suppose.

sgt101 4y ago
Metal poles? I've never seen a metal pole for phone lines.
rogy 4y ago
Yep i live on a managed estate full of old people who’ve lived here since they were built, only get VDSL. Management comittee wouldn’t even let Virgin install cable, so going to have to wait for them all to age out of the committee so we can get somewhere
Teandw 4y ago
Attaching the box to a metal pole isn't the problem. There are other problems such as H&S, expected demand (as the boxes have limited amounts of ports) and pole capacity in general. Poles can only have a certain amount of wire loading. Those are not always straight forward things to consider when put all together and forward planning is also needed. This kind of goes into it: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/openreach-update-on-solutions-for-uk-fttp-pole-capacity-issues.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/openreach-upda...
tebbers 4y ago
I have FTTP in London and that’s how they’re delivering it - there is an optical box on the telephone pole and my fibre line comes into my house literally alongside my telephone line. It just terminates at a slightly different location in my flat.
odiroot 4y ago
I don't really understand the wooden poles. I thought it's a relict of the past but then again, I saw a new wooden pole being erected a few weeks ago, it had the junction box on top, I guess ready to provide the final legs to houses.
- rhino369 4y ago
  Cheaper, lighter, more than strong enough, and they don't conduct electricity.
blibble 4y ago
I have Openreach FTTP and I live on a modern estate with ducting before the installation date I watched the guy push the fibre through the duct, popping out outside my external termination box then on the day the guy laid the internal fibre and spliced them together

sgt101 4y ago

Metal poles? I've never seen a metal pole for phone lines.

rogy 4y ago

Yep i live on a managed estate full of old people who’ve lived here since they were built, only get VDSL. Management comittee wouldn’t even let Virgin install cable, so going to have to wait for them all to age out of the committee so we can get somewhere

Teandw 4y ago

Attaching the box to a metal pole isn't the problem. There are other problems such as H&S, expected demand (as the boxes have limited amounts of ports) and pole capacity in general. Poles can only have a certain amount of wire loading. Those are not always straight forward things to consider when put all together and forward planning is also needed. This kind of goes into it: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/openreach-update-on-solutions-for-uk-fttp-pole-capacity-issues.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/openreach-upda...

tebbers 4y ago

I have FTTP in London and that’s how they’re delivering it - there is an optical box on the telephone pole and my fibre line comes into my house literally alongside my telephone line. It just terminates at a slightly different location in my flat.

odiroot 4y ago

I don't really understand the wooden poles. I thought it's a relict of the past but then again, I saw a new wooden pole being erected a few weeks ago, it had the junction box on top, I guess ready to provide the final legs to houses.

rhino369 4y ago
Cheaper, lighter, more than strong enough, and they don't conduct electricity.

blibble 4y ago

I have Openreach FTTP and I live on a modern estate with ducting before the installation date I watched the guy push the fibre through the duct, popping out outside my external termination box then on the day the guy laid the internal fibre and spliced them together