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FTTP installation

Burnymill — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:13:31 GMT

WBC FTTP is available at my house as a 1 Stage Install Process – “Single Dwelling Unit Residential OH Feed with no anticipated issues.” However, I would prefer the cable to be underground. The pole is 20 metres from the house, easy dig over soft ground, which I could do myself prior to installation.

I don’t want to place on order with BT until I know whether this proposal is feasible, so wonder if anyone has similar experience - is OR likely to be agreeable to this, if so how best to contact them?

Thanks in advance.

Re: FTTP installation

pippincp — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:27:55 GMT

They haven't been known to. How close is the pole to your property boundry? If even a metre or less who owns the intervening space? Will it require a dig to install a duct from pole to property?

What seems simple to you is not always the case.

Re: FTTP installation

Burnymill — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:03:01 GMT

Many thanks. The pole is on my property, as agreed with OR. I could dig a 20m trench by hand to a 300mm depth easily (or can borrow a friend's mini-digger). It would be much neater than OHC to gable end of house, along and down to suitable entry point. After all, it's infrastructure for decades to come, but I suppose OR will want to do what's easiest for them.

Re: FTTP installation

iniltous — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:51:00 GMT

Because you order with a CP ( communication provider ) but it’s Openreach or an OR Contractor that will do the actual installation work , the chances are you won’t get BT to commit to any particular method of installation, so if it’s a deal breaker , any insistence by yourself, that it’s underground or you won’t order , chances are you won’t order , its the way the industry is mandated by Ofcom to be structured, that you cannot speak to Openreach directly.

If you supply the means ( a roped duct from the pole to your property external wall ) then the OR tech probably won’t have a problem using it , as underground feeds from a pole to a property are allowed, but the installer may well not have the necessary ‘stores’ with them , as a cable ran down a pole into a duct should be behind capping on the pole , and on the house wall , expecting to serve a property overhead , the installer may not necessarily have these items to hand , namely,

Capping Steel No.1, Connector Bend No.1, at the pole end , and BT Connector Bend No.4, BT Capping 25 at the house wall, and preferably a Duct 56 and a 2x Duct bend ,installed by yourself in advance , OR would supply this FOC on building developments but how to arrange this in your situation is unknown

Re: FTTP installation

Burnymill — Mon, 01 May 2023 21:24:59 GMT

Many thanks, that's very helpful, I've kept a copy. Currently we have wireless internet, BT landline only - which my wife wants to keep although not used much - so I'll hold off just now until the exchange becomes fibre only and we are have to act.