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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I wonder if BT pay their engineers more because their work is more dangerous ie working up telegraph poles as opposed to working at ground level??
Are all BT engineers expected to go up a pole when this is required, or only certain trained personnel?
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Everyone has to go up the poles.
I think the wages are higher because the twisted pair network has more weak points and is harder to repair. Honestly it can be an absolute frustrating struggle working on a 70 year old twisted pair copper and often aluminium network. Some of it isn't ducted and with the cables being 50-300 pairs you've got to be able to take measurements to fault find, and intervene in the correct jointbox.
I could be wrong but I imagine a lot of the time on faults with Virgin Media it should be possible to do a repull. With BT's network the equivalent of a repull just isn't possible.