Fibre Question

[Hein69]

Does anyone know what happens when another fibre provider deploys their cables in a area which already has fibre?
Scenario: Lets say Vumatel starts trenching and puts in the conduit where the fibre goes through.
A month or so later Octotel comes along and decides to also lay fibre in the same area.
Do they have to trench from scratch to put in their own conduit or can they just feed their cables through the conduit Vumatel has put in?

Please correct me if something looks wrong

 

[coop]

Does anyone know what happens when another fibre provider deploys their cables in a area which already has fibre?
Scenario: Lets say Vumatel starts trenching and puts in the conduit where the fibre goes through.
A month or so later Octotel comes along and decides to also lay fibre in the same area.
Do they have to trench from scratch to put in their own conduit or can they just feed their cables through the conduit Vumatel has put in?

Please correct me if something looks wrong

In theory, they could talk to vumatel and come to an arrangement to use their conduits. In practice, I doubt that this would happen as vumatel invested a lot of money in doing the trenching. There would also be a lot of other issues to resolve like what would happen if octotel damaged vumatel fiber during the roll-out.

However, when vumatel lay fiber, if there is existing drainage or similar, they run the fiber through the drainage ducts. So if the area concerned was done that way, there is nothing to stop octotel doing the same to minimize trenching.

 

[Hein69]

In theory, they could talk to vumatel and come to an arrangement to use their conduits. In practice, I doubt that this would happen as vumatel invested a lot of money in doing the trenching. There would also be a lot of other issues to resolve like what would happen if octotel damaged vumatel fiber during the roll-out.

However, when vumatel lay fiber, if there is existing drainage or similar, they run the fiber through the drainage ducts. So if the area concerned was done that way, there is nothing to stop octotel doing the same to minimize trenching.

Thanks, It makes sense what you're saying since most of their money goes into trenching and conduit. I think if Octotel wants to make use of their conduit they will have to pay an fair amount, which will save them a ton of time.
Other than that, they will have to trench again sadly.

 

[PBCool]

Cape Town has different by laws which allows providers to share trenches and expenses. So depends on where this would be happening.

 

[Hein69]

Cape Town has different by laws which allows providers to share trenches and expenses. So depends on where this would be happening.

Interesting, the area is Durbanville.

 

[SwiftFibreGuy]

what would happen if octotel damaged vumatel fiber during the roll-out.

Certain other fibre providers have shared conduit with others before.
After damages, loss of customers and having to deal other major issues, the sharing of infrastructure isn't common. It just isn't worth it to the installing party, they already made their forecasts.