Openreach “pole”

[Pharmer]

Openreach were working in our road yesterday and have left a foot-high piece of wood at the edge of the road with a note on it saying that they are requesting council permission for a “pole”. Does anyone know what they mean?

[Keith_Beddoe]

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@Pharmer wrote:

Openreach were working in our road yesterday and have left a foot-high piece of wood at the edge of the road with a note on it saying that they are requesting council permission for a “pole”. Does anyone know what they mean?

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You would have to ask Openreach, but I expect they want to install a telephone pole.

This is just a BT Retail customer forum, and has nothing to do with Openreach, who are a separate company.

[Pharmer]

Openreach are not very forthcoming. Given that there are no,telephone poles in our village they don’t stand a cat in hells chance of erecting one.

[Keith_Beddoe]

Perhaps its part of a new fibre project, especially if you are in a rural area with poor broadband speeds?

They do use poles to carry the optical fibre cable.

[Pharmer]

Thanks. We do have FTTC  but not FTTP yet. It’s a nice thought!