Empty duct?

[richelmes01]

Hi all,

Due to have sky FTTP activated on Monday 28th. Openreach came out yesterday and did some external work - dug up part of the path and garden and laid the ducting for the fibre cable. I have checked the duct where it appears by my wall and there’s nothing in it? Does anyone know if the cable will be pulled through by the engineer on Monday or should the cable already be there? There’s no pull rope in the duct either.

I’ve been waiting since end of Feb now for FTTP so I’m hoping this won’t cause any more delays. I would have thought if there was no cable available to pull through when they did the external work then the appointment for activation on Monday would be rescheduled? I haven’t heard any updates from Sky though.

Thanks

[Chrisee]

@richelmes01 there are many variations on how FTTP installs are done so it is impossible to be certain but on my own install a micro duct was used from the pavement point to the point where yhe external customer supply point box was to ne mounted. A different crew came and blew the fibre itself through the duct and installed the CSP and then the final install happened a few weeeks later. The last install in my road appeared to be done in one day by two teams..

Therefore it could be both jobs will be done together on the 28th  & you may get two engineers or in your area one team may do the whole job or it has been known for an engineer to do the internal install and later a different team come out to complate the external work and activate the line. Openreach are getting better at this so and increasingly Sky engineers do the internal work it is unlikely Sky will know what Openreach plan.

By the way the 28th is Tuesday.