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Originally Posted by Horizon
The only way to alleviate the problem as highlighted in the first post, is to have a USO upon Openreach to lay ducts for broadband cables and allow service providers access to these ducts, in the same way that broadband companies have access to exchanges.
A law needs to be passed to make this happen. As said in the articles, gas, electricity, water needs to be put in anyway, so laying ducting for telecoms should be a breeze on new build estates.
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No-one said there was no ducting for telecoms and I've no idea why Openreach should have a USO on them to supply open-access ducts for new build; it should be on the developer's shoulders, not Openreach.
The complaint was about broadband. Ran into much the same issues here as discussed and still do have them.
A solution is, as Tom Mockridge has suggested:
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I think the Prime Minister mentioned in his speech the other day when he was discussing the USO that we should have the same availability as these other utilities but we do not have the same right of access as other utilities and, of course BT already has that right because it has inherited the 100 year-old copper line into the premise. So we have asked the Government to consider an amendment to the communications code that would permit us to have that same right of access.
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