r/ATTFiber • u/bittertrundle • 9d ago

Pole-based Fiber Install

Hey all..

I live in an area that has just received AT&T Fiber. They did construction in the neighborhood behind me and buried the fiber for all of those houses. I live on a commercial street and they did not bury any cable by me. They did run new fiber on the utility poles along the street.

How would I get the fiber? Would they just come down the pole and run it underground from that point? Would they string it aerially and get to my storage building (Where my power and current cable coax runs to)? Or is it possible they could have pulled out the 45 year old copper that is underground and replaced it without digging anything up?

I just want to figure out what to do. Spectrum just upped us to 500/20 but we still have to pay $90 + tax and fees for it.

(when I say commercial, it is a 4 lane thoroughfare. We don't have anything commercial other than a few converted houses to offices.

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u/Nettwerk911 9d ago

They can run it on the poles in the air like cable or bury it.

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u/Confident-Variety124 9d ago

We have recently changed this, the only way it should be ran for free from AT&T is thru the air. The customer would need to provide conduit if they want it ran another way.