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Originally Posted by Pierre
You have an "interconnect" or "meet-me" chambers where you have a handover. Virgin Media run a fibre to this chamber then it is jointed onto a BT fibre and run to wherever, a mast or an exchange. These tails are generally less than a km or two in length.
So the traffic doesn't go via the BT Core but straight onto the VM Core.
But there are other combinations as you suggest. In really outlawing areas where there is absolutely no way of getting onto any VM fibre, then the traffic can be taken back to the BT exchange and VM can pick it up from there.
There can be lots of reasons, but just because there is BT fibre running into that mast doesn't mean that BT are the sole carrier serving that site. There may be other fibres running into there.
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That's interesting. I thought I had noticed these "meet me" chambers and could follow the fibre tubes that looked like they then ended up in a VM chamber from the BT one but had no way of knowing for sure. Well if BT are doing that, then how would it help the industry if they just completely opened up their ducts? Surely it's a similar thing already?