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The UK telecoms regulator has today issued a provisional ruling against fibre and wireless broadband operator IX Wireless (Opus Broadband), which has found “reasonable grounds for believing” that the operator failed in its duty to ensure that its overhead lines were at the correct height and that they complied with inspection and maintenance rules.
The operator originally held an aspiration to cover 250,000 UK premises with their new network (here), which primarily involves deploying a hybrid fibre and wireless broadband network across several towns in the North West of England, such as Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Nelson, Accrington, Thornton-Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Tameside and Oldham etc. Some FTTP has also been built.
However, the “up to” 15-metre-high metal poles that they build haven’t always gone down well with local residents in some of these areas (people often highlight their negative visual appearance), although in fairness they only need to deploy a smaller number of these in order to cover a wide area. Suffice to say that their deployments sometimes attract complaints.