Openreach can do FTTP underground with no problem at all. Why they put all Fibre Optic underground a year ago but now they decided to put up all poles doesn't make any sense at all. My cabinet from FTTC and G.fast side pod was feed fibre optic all the way from Wellington exchange to my cabinet pcp 8. Surely easy job to put FTTP from the cabinet to my property surely can do that?
I've no idea what you're talking about with fibre going underground until a year ago, Openreach have been building new poles since the beginning.
There are already ducts to the cabinets. There aren't down most streets besides to reach the cabinets and can't use those to reach homes. If there were ducts there they'd use them.
Openreach would have to close pavements and roads and do a bunch of carriageway dig to get fibre built underground. That would cost more than many rural areas.
I'm not sure what about the Woodside estate in Telford justifies that level of expenditure. A small part of the area that was built at a different time and is fully ducted is already built and duct is being built where it makes sense, it just doesn't make sense for most of it.
I suggest for the three thousandth time you find something more constructive to do with your time than fixate on Internet access and the money you receive from the state for essential living expenses than buying broadband modems you don't need to marginally increase sync rate and give yourself more numbers you don't really understand to look at.
There are millions of telegraph poles. Entire neighborhoods, towns and areas of cities have been served by them for longer than you or I have been alive. It's been fine. A bunch of them carry electricity, too, and that's also been fine. Shropshire is hardly famous for high winds and extreme weather. A football hitting a pole once, a hundred or a thousand times doesn't matter.
