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Originally Posted by thamesvalley
Hi, all good healthy debating about company history etc but back to answering this question...
Apparently the estate was owned originally by the RAF and the roads were much wider than they are now. When the council were asked to adopt the highways after the RAF left, they would only do this if the roads were modified to a standard width. This involved the extension of the front gardens and footpaths.
Somone at the time had to the foresight to have the local cable company (NyNex) install their ducts, cabinets etc whilst the road was being modified in case the cable network was expanded out from Birkenhead as far as this estate. Unfortunately it never did as (as many people have stated previously) all expansion came to a halt after the dotcom boom bubble burst. This orphaned piece of network was inheritted by VM and is about a mile away from the live network and end of the duct route. It's completely empty.
Whilst it would appear to make sense for Fujitsu (or even VM) to use this spare duct etc, that's not what this trial is about - it's merely coincidental that it's there.
This trial is about using BT's exisiting infrastructure and processes for 3rd Parties to deliver NGA networks and the findings will feed in to a much larger UK wide rollout plan - so lessons learned here will need to scale up to other non-cabled rural areas that definately wont have the luxury of some spare duct.
Hope that helps!
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Very interesting! How do you know this information? The closest the network goes to then would actually be Upton which as you say is about a mile away. The spare duct will definitely come in handy for Fujitsu in this case. Shame the VM network in Greasby is currently going to waste.