Running own conduit - VM cabinet within 2m of premises

[mccocobeanb]

Hello,

I'm currently stuck with standard ADSL speeds of 14mbps down and 1mbps up (ouchy) courtesy of Openreach, which has been painful, to say the least. So, I have been investigating alternatives, including VM. Currently, Virgin Media does not serve my address, supposedly due to complications of land ownership regarding my driveway, which is shared between five other premises within my block of flats.

Assuming all the other residents are happy for this to go ahead, I've been looking at installing a cable duct that would enable VM to install cabling to my address and, later, other residents if they wish to take out a service.

Usually, I would have ruled this out, as Virgin doesn't tend to do new installs like this. However, there is a Virgin media chamber/cabinet within 2m of the end of the driveway (as shown in the photo), making for a very easy install for VM. 

Is there a chance this could work and be arranged? If I completed the duct installation on my premises and Virgin dug the 2m to their equipment?

[Ashleigh_C]

Hi there @mccocobeanb 

Thank you so much for your post and welcome to the community forums, it's great to have you here. 

I am so sorry that we are not yet available in your area and thank you again for your interest, I would be more than happy to raise a form to have our teams reach out to discuss if a cabling is possible.

I will pop you a private message so we can take a look. I will pop you a PM across now, please keep an eye out for the envelope at the top of your screen alerting you to a new message.

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I think you have a problem here. If the duct was under a jointly owned driveway, VM would still want the wayleave to permanently protect their cables and guarantee the service to their customers using it.

The simplest way forward would be for you to get a letter signed by all the owners that they would agree to VM's wayleave. You could then request an installation. 

It's worth mentioning however that VM have a strict cost limit on new installations, and they will walk away if this one was not financially viable. 

[unisoft]

If permission of the wall owner could be sort, then cant see why coax cant be run along the left wall if just one property but it would still have to cross the driveway to get to the house (dig/cost). If its run to the right hand side of the drive and the house is the first one, it could be run from pavement along that wall.

If multiple properties VM may want a pit chamber in the driveway. Looks like its gravel rather than tarmac so pretty easy to dig and replace if so.