Full fibre installation and internal wiring

[Kab1907]

I have installation booked for next week and I'm aware that a cable needs to run from my exterior grey box to my router position with dual plug socket, with ONT a box added. My question is, near that point is an existing telephone point, both the grey box and telephone point are on the same wall but on different floors. Can the engineer pull through the existing telephone wire, attaching the new cable and therefore wiring hidden? In essence just replacing the existing copper wiring via the same route by pulling through new full fibre cable.

[peter-marlow+1966]

Once the optical network terminal box is fitted  your  phone socket will no longer work and you connect your  phone  to the uk port on the router  and the router  is plugged into  the  optical network terminal box 

[peter-marlow+1966]

You should  get something  like this 

 the box outside the house and then something like this 

 the optical network terminal box in the house all fibre optic cable, they don't use any of the copper  wire, it comes  from the fibre optic box from the telegraph pole straight to  your property, you have your  own point on the telegraph pole  for your home, I  have  had  full fibre to the property broadband 900mps  since January last year and not had any problems 

[peter-marlow+1966]

For got to say the optical network terminal box need to be near a mains plug socket  aswell 

[Chrisee · Accepted solution]

@Kab1907 pulling the fibre pigtail through an exisring route is not a given as the pigtail has an internal fibre plug and is quite fragile. Tell the engineer what you want and see if it is possible.

[Kab1907]

Thanks for the reply Peter. No telephone poll involved it's underground with grey box to front of the house and I know old telephone socket will be redundant. The question was, rather than external cable on the front of the house can cable follow the route of the existing copper telephone line, in effect replacing it, pull the old wire out with the new cable tied to it. Therefore no external cable.

[Kab1907]

So it's a possibility with no guarantees. I'll discuss with engineer and IMO worth a try, plan B external cabling. Thanks again.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Kab1907 wrote:

 Can the engineer pull through the existing telephone wire, attaching the new cable and therefore wiring hidden? 

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They are extremely unlikely to be prepared to pull through an optical pigtail using the current copper: the internal fibre just isn't designed to be deployed that way.

[peter-marlow+1966]

Kab1907

The cable  will come  from  the grey box to a point where the engineer  may think it is best to place  the optical network terminal box in  the  house  as the cable  goes into the back of it,  have a talk with  the engineer  when he comes  see what he  can do ,hope it goes well