Route
Trench, duct and pole — getting the cable down the street.
Everything in Route
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The last hundred metres
Backhaul is cheap per home and the final stretch is not: the cost of an access network is overwhelmingly the cost of getting down a street and across a boundary. Trenching, existing duct, poles and micro-trenching all trade capital cost against disruption, permission and how long the reinstatement lasts.
Duct you already have
Reusing existing infrastructure is transformative where it exists and maddening where the records are wrong.
Poles
Overhead is fast and cheap and visible, and the objection is nearly always visual.
Micro-trenching
A narrow slot in the carriageway — quick, and only as good as the reinstatement.
Permission
The legal right to cross somebody's land, and the commonest cause of delay.
The other five sections
The Joint
Splicing, enclosures and the losses you cannot see.
The Split
Passive splitting and what the architecture costs.
Beyond Fibre
Wireless, coax, copper and satellite.
The Drop
The last few metres into the building.
Indoors
Where the gigabit usually goes missing.