Parliament Publishes Useful UK Summary of Rules for Broadband Poles

House of Commons Library publishes explainer on UK broadband telegraph poles rules

Complaints about new broadband poles being installed in residential streets have been common over the last couple of years as alt-nets try to build new networks to compete with Openreach in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This has led to new telegraph poles being used to help deliver this, and in some cases, the alt-nets haven’t always followed the required rules, and have then ended up with fines from Ofcom. https://www.thinkbroadband.c…

Parliament Publishes Useful UK Summary of Rules for Broadband Poles

The House of Commons Library within the UK Parliament has published a useful new document that helps to summarise and explain some of the core rules around the deployment of poles (telegraph poles) for broadband network expansion. In recent years, these have often become a point of some contention for communities that don’t want them. The deployment of poles (usually made of wood, but sometimes also metal) to run new overhead fibre optic or copp…