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Originally Posted by macafee2
Just reading something about Openreach, they own the Telephone exchanges, equipment inside and almost all the cable from the exchanges to our homes.
Clive Sealy the Openreach CEO has said roundabout December 2021 :-
Today we have about 5,500 exchanges in the UK. In the future, and particularly beyond 2026, we will only need about a thousand.
If it were not for fibre I doubt they could do this. The main problem is where all the phone numbers connect to the cables in the road, the MDF, Main Distribution Frame. Moving one of these is mammoth and has been the reason for not having gotten rid of telephone exchanges in the past.
Lots of copper cables to be recovered from the road, lots of equipment from exchanges to sell and lots of real estate to get rid of.
For a long time I have wondered, should "BT" set up a new company to convert telephone exchanges into shops, housing, offices etc. There must be money in it as other companies buy BT property and make money on it so why not BT make more money and do it "themselves"?
There was talk a few years ago of any office below a London to Bristol imaginary line was to go. No idea what happened.
macafee2
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Do they remove the old copper cables then? Interesting if they do, would guess they are in ducts so easy enough. Lecky cables are usually left if they are laid direct, too expensive to excavate then reinstate.
Getting rid of all those exchanges, lose one could lose a lot of customers. Hope the interconnection/back-up is resilient.