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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Except Fibre installs work complete differently to coax ones as far I know.
Fibre installs have the fibre cable blown down the duct, not manually pulled using some rope or existing coax, so to convert a coax install to Fibre you'd first have to add an appropriate conduit for each house to allow that to happen.
Considering how full some coax ducts already are with the existing cabling, that means digging up the roads and pavements again
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Probably a stupid question, but isn't the "conduit" for the fibre what you'd actually replace the coax with? I watched a fibre install into an office a couple of years ago - they installed what looked like vaguely bendy plastic tubing from the entrance all the way to the termination area. Then they just blew the fibre through that tube. What's stopping them from pulling said tube through the trench, then blowing fibre down it?