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Originally Posted by Escapee
That is not strictly true if my memory serves me right. Although you are correct that the licensing for the new franchises were for underground systems. The old overhead systems (Some of these had underground Trunks) were under LDO licences.
When the governing body at the time took away the targets for the 'new' builds because operators were not meeting them, I believe they also deregulated and allowed any operator to provide services in any area. This left it open for the LDO overhead systems (Then owned by ntl) to upgrade these as they saw fit.
ntl chose to close the systems instead of utilising the underground ducts, poles and wayleaves to reach customers in new areas.
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As far as Im aware, there are regulatory issues regarding Aeriel deployment by placing new poles. Virgin have the option to piggy back on other providers poles but this requires an agreement with said provider to use their network. The problem with using BT's distribution network would potentially allow BT to use Virgins duct network (where available) so I belive Virgin were looking at alternative options (hence the powerline agreement). Cant wait to see this live, we have great potential to reach more areas by using the architecture so I hope its a success!
