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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11
You will be looking at around the £10,000 thousand pound mark, because of all the planning and the man hours involved to remove the Box from your back garden and move it out onto the public walkway. Plus the impact this will have on paying customers
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That's totally ludicrous.
I've seen quotes recently of less than £10000 to install completely new fibre optic across an entire mile of a city, including digging up roads, and BT's FTTPoD costs are half of that - around £5000
per mile. The estimated cost of Openreach running completely new cables (including road digging and laying new ducts) all the way from the exchange to an FTTC cabinet is barely £15,000.
VM would probably have to dig, at most, 50 metres. And frankly, they could get away with digging two metres. Bury the cable and move the amps up to the next junction box.