https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2175986#M1195027 <P>A few days a go they started working on replacing all the telephone poles in my town and renewing the lines I wonder if this is the switch over to the new fibre network and will be finally&nbsp; getting rid of copper?&nbsp; They will be upgrading the telephone pole we are connected to sometime this week&nbsp; if this is true hopefully be able to upgrade to the new speeds dsl checker says yes and bt site but when we was on the phone to bt awhile ago they said our town infrastructure was waiting to be updated maybe this is what is being worked on now? <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":crossed_fingers:">🤞</span><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":crossed_fingers:">🤞</span></P> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 11:12:27 GMT stephen_1982 2021-08-05T11:12:27Z https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2175986#M1195027 <P>A few days a go they started working on replacing all the telephone poles in my town and renewing the lines I wonder if this is the switch over to the new fibre network and will be finally&nbsp; getting rid of copper?&nbsp; They will be upgrading the telephone pole we are connected to sometime this week&nbsp; if this is true hopefully be able to upgrade to the new speeds dsl checker says yes and bt site but when we was on the phone to bt awhile ago they said our town infrastructure was waiting to be updated maybe this is what is being worked on now? <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":crossed_fingers:">🤞</span><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":crossed_fingers:">🤞</span></P> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 11:12:27 GMT https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2175986#M1195027 stephen_1982 2021-08-05T11:12:27Z https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2176018#M1195028 <P>Bit odd they would replace every Telephone Pole. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":thinking_face:">🤔</span></P><P>Also they wouldn’t just replace all the existing Copper Cabling, they would just overlay it with Fibre as you can’t force people to switch from Copper to FTTP, well not yet anyway.</P> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:28:49 GMT https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2176018#M1195028 Starwire 2021-08-05T13:28:49Z https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2176020#M1195029 <P>Our telephone poles are very old&nbsp; where I live never seen one&nbsp; ever been replaced&nbsp; <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":face_with_tears_of_joy:">😂</span> there is alot off work going on today on my street but wehae to wait untill our pole is replaced as we only have one spot it goes into it only makes sense to replace the copper now or over lay&nbsp; the fibre if they did make people go to fibre it would most likely be the slowest and cheapest package only make ense to switch to fibre if&nbsp; the lines are being replaced and renewed? <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":thinking_face:">🤔</span><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":thinking_face:">🤔</span></P> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:38:31 GMT https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/My-town-is-having-all-the-telphone-poles-replaced-and-renewing/m-p/2176020#M1195029 stephen_1982 2021-08-05T13:38:31Z