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FTTP Installation

Davyk85 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:23:25 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone tell how exactly FTTP is installed?

Will there be any digging involved to install the new line to my house?

Thanks

Re: FTTP Installation

licquorice — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:25:41 GMT

Possibly, possibly not.

How is your copper line fed to your house, from a pole or underground?

Re: FTTP Installation

Keith_Beddoe — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:26:32 GMT

@Davyk85

See https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Fibre-broadband/FTTP-Install-process/td-p/2095673

Re: FTTP Installation

Davyk85 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:57:00 GMT

@Keith_Beddoe thanks

Re: FTTP Installation

gg30340 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:02:01 GMT

See link

How is Full Fibre installed? | BT Help

Re: FTTP Installation

Davyk85 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:18:38 GMT

@gg30340 thanks, but that doesn't actually tell you how the new line will be installed

Re: FTTP Installation

licquorice — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:22:54 GMT

Perhaps if you answered my question we might be able to give a more informative answer although it will depend very much on your individual circumstances.

Re: FTTP Installation

gg30340 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:26:04 GMT

@Davyk85 wrote:

@gg30340 thanks, but that doesn't actually tell you how the new line will be installed

That is because it can not be specific until it is know how your property is presently served as per message No.2

EDIT: Post crossed with above post.

Re: FTTP Installation

iniltous — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:29:52 GMT

If ( for arguments sake ) your property was built in the 60’s or 70’s and has the typical underground method of provision from that period , then the existing copper cable is ‘direct in the ground’ and not inside a duct , with no evidence of where the cable enters the property on an external wall, if FTTP is provided in these circumstances, then excavation is more than likely required, to install the new fibre cable to the property , the only alternative in a situation like that would be to install telegraph poles and go from an underground copper pair service to overhead fibre one.