06-03-2021, 12:45 PM
(06-03-2021, 11:11 AM)Ray White Wrote: We still have an overhead supply for both power and telephone lines but the numerous insulators have long gone. Incidentally, Open Reach who look after the poles (are they still called telegraph poles?) have been very helpful. I have a difficult neighbour who was threatening to remove a pole on his land which would have taken out my land line. Open Reach kindly re routed the line which meant putting up three new poles - at no expense to me - and resolved the issue. I can't praise them highly enough.I have three electricity poles on my land and every year receive a cheque for £45 for the dreadful inconvenience they cause. I wish I had 300.
Last year Open Reach turned up and started digging trenches and installing cabling and suchlike in the village. Naturally, one totters out to ask the navvies what's going on. "Bband, mate, it's for that Bband." And so it proved, unannounced and with no publicity - not even a flyer through the door - in the middle of the Peak District we now have a 330 mbps fibre-to-the-premises internet connection. Trust me - you don't need more than 50.