That's different, they were responding to a damage and there could be all kinds of other costs related to it that pushes it up to £25,000 . Fibre optic usually is laid in 2km sections and when it is damaged the whole 2km is usually replaced so as not to increase the attenuation on the span.
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I never thought it was cheap or an easy job. I was asking if there was ever any dicussion of plans to extend the network. Surely over the years they get there money back, if there is demand for service.
There are areas around here which made no commercial sense to have cable laid in. Some houses in areas with cable have driveways so long you would need an RG11 pull even if the cab was on the road outside your house.
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Generally speaking there has been no major build in the industry for the best part of 4 years. The industry has concentrated increasing revenues by upselling to exisiting customers.
It is unlikely that any new build would be green lit until ntl and telewest have merged and then only if there is a major cash injection. When ntl/telewest merge it will cost a lot of money to link the two networks (you only have to look at the problems with legacy ntl and CoCo)
Basically if your not in a built area now I wouldnot envisage you getting service for several more years - if at all.