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Originally Posted by Pierre
I doubt very much this would happen. VM can refuse access for several of the reasons given on that statement.
Also co- ordination of civils works is nothing new, but very rarely undertaken because companies a very rarely ready to lay infrastructure in the same place at the same time.
File under, all been proposed before, tried before, failed before.
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Show me where VM have been obligated to offer passive access to their duct infrastructure before, please? This has only been applied to Openreach in the UK?
I would imagine that if VM start extracting the urine and making excuses to avoid giving others access to their network there would be remedies available. It is taken as read that VM have full ducts like everyone else so will have quite legitimate reasons for refusing access to some of their plant.
This is compulsory co-ordination of civils works. It happens elsewhere, it's been happening in Sweden for a while. Would make sense that when VM or Openreach can't say 'no' things change. Especially given that they would be obliged to have details of their passive infrastructure available. If a duct collapses and needs replacing the altnet will know about it and when the duct is replaced VM can be required to allow altnets access to deploy.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
I understand that - which was the question. What would happen to whatever anyone else has installed if you wanted to swap from them to Virgin Media, or indeed vice versa if there is already VM cable to a property.
Would another provider be allowed to remove the VM cable if it interfered with getting their connection to the property?
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No, the altnet aren't going to use the VM drop anyway. They'd have a fibre going down the duct in the pavement and build their own drops from there.
The operator's fibre would be in a subduct / microduct inside VM's duct so zero interference.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Are there even many areas where this would benefit BT? I can't imagine many other providers wanting to take up this offer, it's majority Openreach anyway, isn't it? And don't they already cover most areas Virgin are in?
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Someone like CityFibre would be potentially interested. They are building fibre rings in some cities and PIA allows them to build out from these rings to reach homes more cheaply.