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Virgin Media Project Mustang - FTTP Overbuild

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Chrysalis:
I mentioned on TBB, it wouldnt surprise me if VM buy out some small altnet providers as they going to be arriving late in cities where some smaller altnets like grain have done a rollout in cable areas.

Openreach altnet chasing i guess means they will at some point cover Leicester given cityfibre is doing most of the city, so now I fully understand the concerns people had when we have areas with no FTTP and others with at least 2-3.

Alex Atkin UK:

--- Quote from: Reformed on April 10, 2022, 12:34:53 PM ---Unhappy news as it may be for the more socialist among us the vast majority of the commercial build right now is going to be overbuild. VMO2 cover nearly half the country with network they're going to upgrade, Openreach will be altnet chasing as they should be. There is going to be basically nowhere where an altnet is the only operator, and those that are there are going to have seriously precarious business cases and very, very long payback periods.

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Depends what kind of socialist you are.  While I would have preferred the underlying telco had remained nationalised, I'm not against the direction were going as long as the areas that do get stuck with a single provider do not end up like the US where they stop investing and crank up the prices.

The fact I may end up able to get OR, CityFibre and Virgin is definitely appealing.  Its important to understand the benefit and drawbacks of a given system.  Capitalism is fine, so long as its regulated, the problem occurs with the fact businesses are expected to constantly increase their profit when resources and customers are a finite resource.

Now the energy sector on the other hand is a complete an utter mess.  I was even taught in business studies how it makes no sense to have multiple companies for it, right before the government did exactly that.  Though granted, they were meaning more distribution as you'd need multiple cable networks and sub-stations which is a lot more unmanageable than say telco where the sub-stations (cabinets) are many orders of magnitude smaller.

Chrysalis:
Agree Alex, trying to get my IHD fixed, makes Openreach fault fixing seem like platinum in comparison.

Alex Atkin UK:
Back on topic, finally decided to inspect what VM are doing round here.  Talked to the people digging the road and they confirmed its a VM expansion via OR ducting.  They were adding a short piece of ducting to a new cabinet location.

This also explains the Northern Power Grid work at the end of my street where VM were working a few weeks ago, power for a new cabinet I presume.

Chrysalis:
Is there a checker for mustang?

I see there was a video released which showed 2023 areas (it then got pulled), and people reporting works, but Leicester is dead, No VM works in the city other than for their existing network.

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