@G6JPG-0 wrote:
I've no idea whether my existing connection is via a duct or directly buried; it works well! Any idea what proportion are buried (presumably that means the raw cable is just buried in the ground) and what are ducted?
A neighbour recently asked that question of BT/Openreach, I'm not sure which. The answer was that new installations after the early 70s should be ducted, so it is allegedly installation date related. I have no idea when overhead connections were replaced with underground cables, presumably when new estates were being built in greenfield areas, home owners could afford and wanted a telephone and there were no pre-existing pre-war telegraph poles, my guess, in the late 50s/60s. Our house, which was completed about 1972 has a directly buried telephone cable which runs under the floor to a socket in the centre of the property.
Thanks. I believe this home was sited about 1999 or 2000, so it should thus be ducted, unless the site owner "did things on the cheap". Where there is (what would originally have only been) a telephone connection, would OR (or BT, or the GPO) have always insisted on being involved with the provision including the last few yards, or could builders (and especially site owners, such as park home/caravan/camping) insist on doing that themselves (and possibly thus just burying)?
[At my previous home - also a park home site - the telephone cable, which I'm pretty sure was just buried, over the years worked its way to the surface, until it encountered a lawnmower; but I think that was a much older site. (CM2 8LF)]
