The cabinet on the right as you look at it is a power cabinet. On the left you've a 'standard' CATV and nodal cabinet that'll deliver services to a bunch of people's homes alongside terminating fibre. In the middle looks like a plinth for an MSAN that provides telco services. Those are delivered with the MSAN in the cabinet already so presumably the ducts and plinth are covered up waiting for the MSAN itself.
Closer to delivery time I imagine that cover will be replaced by the MSAN.
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Originally Posted by vm_tech
This is what I've always thought: project lightening is a 5 year, 3 billion pound project. If this returns them 4 billion, why would they stop at 5 years? Obviously it's a waiting game they won't see the money back instantly, but if they forecast it will bring more money in they will carry on. They will stop once the forecasts say there's now too much risk of not earning money from this, so we will stop
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The 4 million premises, £3 billion Lightning is the first phase of the project. If it goes as planned VM can and will continue to build.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
Just a little titbit of info from the webcast today, VM are currently building out to 300k homes at a cost of £500 per home passed. This time last year the number was at 30k homes.
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VM are willing to suck up considerably more than £500 per premises passed during the course of this project. They will be building to completely new towns and are budgeting £750 per premises passed across the lifetime of the project.
The back end of the project here will be coming in at close to £1k per premises passed, offset by the costs of the earlier phases of the build and justified by take up and expected ARPU in those streets.
Pierre can probably pull up the details on that particular drama.