I am about to get sky tv and broadband installed. Is it necessary to dig up the driveway?

[Sharsim66]

Is it necessary to have any digging up of the driveway done to have sky installed. We currently have Virgin for tv and broadband.

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Sharsim66 

Enter your full postal address below and post the table and notes after removing your address from the image

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome

[TimmyBGood]

@Sharsim66 

Sky satellite television uses a dish for reception, so no digging is required for that.  However if your area is being provisioned by Openreach for internet over FTTP, the default connection for a new broadband subscription would require an optical cable to be routed to the property (which is what the link @cookiemonsteruk provided may indicate).

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Sharsim66 

Per @TimmyBGood sorry i wasn't specific enough. The link will indicate exactly how the cable will be bought to the property and any issues involved if you are getting fttp

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I had an engineer out yesterday for 3 hours and the only way I could get Ultrafast installed was if they dug up my tarmac on the driveway - a meter square in front of the doorstep so I declined as it would then be patched up right in front of the door.

It's a shame there's no other way of installing it.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Anonymous wrote:

It's a shame there's no other way of installing it.

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Where cabling is in ducting it does have to be broken out somewhere adjacent to the property in order to reach an external CSP box.

There was once a trial of bringing optical cable into properties via sewage pipes and toilet bowls: strangely enough no-one really fancied that....