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Today whilst delivering political leaflets in South Coventry I noticed two locations in which Virgin were laying new optic fibre along two well-established streets. I asked the contractors if they were laying coax or fibre. "Fibre", they said. The fibre is being laid in shallow pavement trenches with access hatches shared between two houses looking a little different than those currently employed for coax on the old NTL network.
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Is this typical where VM decide to lay cable for existing streets as part of a network extension? I am assuming that each house with the new fibre will be offered fibre to the premises.