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Having greased BTs' palms with large quantities of silver they are now to provide our Exmoor village with fibre broadband.

This sounds like good news, but I have a concern. They are talking about overhead fibre, by which I assume they mean an overhead fibre cable slung from pole to pole. I would have thought that one could expect the same speed as underground fibre but what about reliability?

Anybody with any experience? Good or bad.:rolleyes:
 
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Unless someone runs a high truck into it or a tree falls on it - shouldn't be any less reliable. The lifespan might(?) be lower due to the low level ongoing movement in wind but I expect none have yet been in service long enough to tell what kind of time frame it might be. (Certainly years+).

That is my understanding.. Others might have ideas on problems that I've not thought about
 
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I dont know how resilient the cables are to micro fracture, or what effect such fractures would cause; my main source of phone line degradation comes from these - caused by tree branch strikes.

Long gone are the days when BT would come and trim back trees near their phone lines.
 
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I don't think this is something to worry about, a few countries have had overhead fibres for around a decade and so far they haven't run into any problems. Lest we not forget the undersea cables that have been around for many times longer and still work. The cables are designed to flex and should be very resilient.
 
Thanks all. Sounds as though, on balance, this will be A GOOD THING. Lets just hope they implement quickly.
 
At least it reduces the chance of the water, gas or electric contractors digging them up.
 
Having greased BTs' palms with large quantities of silver they are now to provide our Exmoor village with fibre broadband.

This sounds like good news, but I have a concern. They are talking about overhead fibre, by which I assume they mean an overhead fibre cable slung from pole to pole. I would have thought that one could expect the same speed as underground fibre but what about reliability?

Anybody with any experience? Good or bad.:rolleyes:

I'm interested in doing something similar if feasible, what sort of figures are we talking here to get BT to play ball?
 
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Depends on the area - costs vary - but this should be your starting point for investigating:

http://www.communityfibre.bt.com/

However I would say that it's also worth querying alternative network providers as well, such as Gigaclear, to see how much they'd charge.
 
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