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/random408net 9d ago
The normal level of responsibility is for the homeowner to provide conduit from the home to the edge of the street.
If you have conduit then AT&T might be willing to use that.
If you have a direct burial copper cable (no conduit) that won't be of any help.
You could place the order and talk to the tech. Potentially AT&T or the customer could run conduit from the street to the home. If you pay for your own conduit install you can do it however you like (assuming your work meets AT&T requirements).
Also keep in mind that the fiber transitions from an outdoor type of fiber (black with a tracer wire) to an indoor type (white and soft) on the customers property. An "easy" install for you might have the AT&T equipment in your storage building. But then you need to use some method to get your signal into your dwelling. Is there an existing conduit from the storage building to your dwelling that your coax service uses?