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Originally Posted by rhyds
I know this is an ancient thread resurrection, but there's been some developments up at my folks' village.
Background: This village is pole fed from the next village that's two miles down the valley (which houses the telephone exchange). There are no cabinets or ducting at present.
In the last week or so, a subcontractor has installed a number of BT branded concrete manhole covers in the village. One at the foot of a "main" pole near an electricity supply pole and the others alongside a road verge heading up towards the outlying houses.
The contractor (Eastern European) mentioned to my (non technical) Mother that it was apparently fibre preparation works.
My question is, considering the current copper lines are all overhead, will the ducting installed be suitable to run all these lines underground plus fibre, or will they simply run microbore ducting for the fibre only?
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Interesting one. I initially thought well maybe they are installing additional cabinets in your village and they will fit fibre cabinets alongside the new ones. But you'd really need to get those copper lines underground before passing them through a cabinet. I can't think where that has ever been done.
Are you absolutely sure that all of the current copper lines to your village run overhead? Are there less than 50 homes in the village?