Good afternoon pippincp.
Firstly, I’m have always been, and still am, very impressed by the work carried out by members of this board, especially the Distinguished Sages, who appear to devote a great deal of their time helping others.
I responded to imjolly’s post by saying his comment was ‘not really true’. Your response, in no uncertain terms, unsurprisingly led me to conclude you were referring this statement. Had you made it clear what you were referring to, it would have saved a lot of time.
Regarding your assertion that I’m confusing OFCOM enforced PIA agreements; I was not.
The only reason I’m expressing an interest in this matter is my need to establish, what is going on between Openreach and BoxBroadband. No longer being obsessed with telecommunications matters, I was not even aware that there were OFCOM PIA agreements. The only one I’ve found, relating to ‘network competition’ is the ‘Strategic Vision for Network Competition’. Is this the document you are referring to? If so, it was published in 2016 and mainly concerns copper.
My only reason to mention I was, an ex-BT Level 2 was not to impress, but to make you aware that I was conversant with telecommunications in general, BT and Openreach, who were incidentally part of BT, and are still owned by BT.
You cleverly mention AltNet? A company registered in Brighton supplying fibre equipment to fibre installation companies. Were you perhaps intending to refer to Alternative Networks, a company taken over by Daisy Communications in 2016? If so, they provide solutions to small, medium, and large businesses, not the domestic market. If it’s neither of these, you will no doubt explain what you are referring to.
I have suggested that you look at the BoxBroadband and labs.thinkbroadband.com websites, have you?
Had you, you would now be aware that some 60 ‘small’ companies, are presently engaged in the provision of FTTP, and are undertaking this in many locations. As far as I can ascertain, they are installing blown fibre duct, fibre, footway, and pole connection equipment, in Openreach’s ducts, footway boxes and on their poles. Boxbroadband certainly are.
Regarding “Openreach are not cotracting out to any AltNet.”. Surely there must be a negotiated agreement between these companies and Openreach, which permits the companies carry out installations. This is not being done, without Openreach’s permission
Regarding your statement “I have a contact within Openreach”. I also have a contact within Openreach, at executive level. I trust you will agree that I am also not at liberty to divulge confidential information.
I suggest it would be wise to do a bit more research, before digging a deeper hole.
I don’t think I ever asked for an apology, and I certainly wasn’t expecting one
In my next post there are 2 photographs of one of them depicts the labels attached to all BoxBroadband’s equipment. The second, shows the Broxbroadband fibre connection box atop of the Openreach Pole. It’s too distant to be able to read the label, but I can assure you it says Boxbroadband on it. The copper dropwire box is on the other side of the box just in case you were going to suggest the box in the picture was the copper dropwire box.
I can assure you no fairies were involved.
