BT Telegraph Poles

Are the poles working shifts, I can't imagine they'd last very long holding up cables 24/7 with no way to eat

What are we going to do post brexit when we stop allowing poles from Poland into the country ?
 
LeeUK said:
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You live in a very small house.
 
The phone lines from the houses go to the poles then they run down the side of each pole inside a phat pipe then into the ducting under the ground. There is a BT manhole cover at the end of the street where a assume these phone lines pass through.

I'm on about why there is a line going from one pole to the next pole, and why this week they have added an extra line going from one pole to the next pole. These lines don't go to peoples houses.
 
Hotwired said:
Something like that.

Appears to be called wayleave and is an agreement+payment with electricity or communication companies to stick and maintain a pole/pylon on your land.
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Not at all. If it's an existing structure and no agreement is in place tough luck.
 
LeeUK said:
The phone lines from the houses go to the poles then they run down the side of each pole inside a phat pipe then into the ducting under the ground. There is a BT manhole cover at the end of the street where a assume these phone lines pass through.

I'm on about why there is a line going from one pole to the next pole, and why this week they have added an extra line going from one pole to the next pole. These lines don't go to peoples houses.
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Lee

If we number poles 1-3 starting on the left - Now say in theory each pole has 10 pairs of wires going up to the block on top this means each pole can provide for 10 phone lines - Say no1 has only 6 phones on it and 2 and 3 have 10 each that means pole 2 and 3 are full - say both your houses at the end want another phone line but there isn't any spare lines so they run a wire from number one pole to number 3 and feed the line from pole 1- up new wire to pole 3 and to each house. - This is just a theory and only written to confuse the skim readers.
 
Friend of mine works for openreach and does a lot of pole work. When he’s not stripping (it was funny) he is the chap who climbs those poles and sorts issues out.

From previous chatters I know that openreach have certain colour coordinated cables. If you can tell us what it is then I may be able to find out for you.

As an example IIRC they have some black and yellow cables, those are all fibre and black and another colour is a fibre/copper mix and so on.

It’s likely they are working on the infrastructure or trying to resolve and issue raised by someone living nearby.
 
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