As suspected , partial DIG , so although there are usable joint boxes in the footpath and ducts existing between them , there is currently no ducted path to each individual property or a toby box on the curtilage , and given the relatively recent policy change ( presumably so as to not give competitor company’s an even bigger leg up by providing ducts to curtilage of every property in the street before any orders for service have been received ) and as said once this duct exists there is nothing stopping competitors putting their cables in these new ducts , City Fibre however can build to each property safe in the knowledge that only CF will be able to use this infrastructure , so not danger of them ‘helping out’ their competitors .
As you suggest , if an individual property orders FTTP in this scenario, depending on how far away the jointbox containing the appropriate CBT is from the property, then a significant amount of duct work could be needed , but the OR policy makers must think it’s cost effective to do it this way , presumably one of the reasons for the change of policy was the expense of the old system , for example say ducting 20 addresses in a street and maybe getting three or four customers on FTTP , so 16 addresses that could get FTTP from OR based ISP , but chose not to , using competitors like VM or happy with what the already have ) and making life even easier for direct competitors ( no longer having any real ‘civils’ expense ) they come along and obviously can be cheaper, after all they haven’t had any expense of the civils work , and only have to pay a peppercorn ‘rent’ for putting their kit in the OR infrastructure.
If Ofcom had made PIA ( physical access infrastructure ) reciprocal, so OR could use City Fibre or Virgin Media or anyone else’s boxes and ducts etc in the same way these companies can use OR , there wouldn’t be the need to do this constant digging of footpaths , but it’s not a reciprocal arrangement.
