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Re: The History of cable TV in the uk
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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.
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Something must have changed recently, because OpenReach were putting fibre boxes up the telegraph poles in Moortown (Leeds) six months ago (they had flooded the area with contractors, there was about 10 vans in 5 or 6 streets).
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...h#post35951362
https://news.openreach.co.uk/pressre...uption-2806651
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As well as adding even more reliability and resilience to broadband connections and making them less likely to drop out, Full Fibre is capable of bringing speeds of up to 1 Gbps – about 22 times faster than the current UK average of 46Mbps – to tens of thousands of local homes and businesses.
As part of the visit to Openreach’s training school in nearby Bradford, guests were able to take a closer look at some of the technology that’s being used across the 165 million kilometres of Openreach’s network, including trying their hand at joining fibre cables together.
Engineers were also able to explain how cutting-edge technology being used in Leeds meant most of the work taking place to build the ultrafast network can happen without needing to dig up roads and pavements. This means the work can be completed quickly and with minimal disruption to people living and working in the city.
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Last edited by Hugh; 28-12-2018 at 12:01.
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