Mark8253
Regular Member
Does anybody know what the device on the left is in this picture please? The well-used CBT on the right is part of an Airband FTTP deployment (and one of their splitters is further down the same OR pole). The other box clearly belongs to Freedom Fibre, but the cable going into it just runs to an adjacent pole where it has been tied in a loop for weeks now.
There's no other FF kit around, apart from some new poles (but no cables yet) about a kilometre away, but new OR poles also appeared last week right alongside the new FF poles, so it appears that we might get three operators competing for our business!
The original Airband deployment was paid for by ConnectingCheshire, but FF and OR must be doing it with their own money (or more likely their banks'!), as the Cheshire Gigabit contract hasn't been awarded yet - and presumably it wouldn't subsidise this overbuild anyway.
There's no other FF kit around, apart from some new poles (but no cables yet) about a kilometre away, but new OR poles also appeared last week right alongside the new FF poles, so it appears that we might get three operators competing for our business!
The original Airband deployment was paid for by ConnectingCheshire, but FF and OR must be doing it with their own money (or more likely their banks'!), as the Cheshire Gigabit contract hasn't been awarded yet - and presumably it wouldn't subsidise this overbuild anyway.























