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Old 28-12-2018, 14:52   #28
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Re: The History of cable TV in the uk

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Originally Posted by pip08456 View Post
I didn't know Openreach was a Cableco franchise.

I was responding to Chris's reply to Dude11's post
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Ya .... I remember when cable first was strung in my area.. In the 70s but we didnt get it until the early 80s if I remember right.....
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Originally Posted by Chris
Thing is Dude, here in the U.K. the cableco franchises were rarely if ever allowed to string up their cables from poles - it always had to be buried in ducts. It kept our strreetscapes neat but made deployment very expensive and is why so many places here still don’t have it.
And I thought that CF'ers would be interested in the fact that OpenReach were now putting fibre up the poles.
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