A dumb question: We are planning a multi-utility connection:
a) Will the Unitymedia cable connection also be installed in it?
b) Since it is more or less an empty conduit: Can you also later on, e.g. in a few years, pull the cable connection through it without much effort, i.e. without having to dig up or break through again?
Ask your architect what kind of multi-utility connection it is.
Ours has four inputs.
- Water
- Electricity
- Telekom
- Empty conduit (for later Unity Media connection)
We don’t have gas for example.
Doing something later is always bad, expensive, and fiddly. Especially if a fifth utility has to be added afterwards. Make it future-proof right away, the way you want it.
You can also stick to only one connection, but then you lose the "luxury" of switching providers.
But ask your parents when they last switched providers. You have to want it for it to be worthwhile. And you shouldn’t be afraid that if you actually have no alternatives, the one provider will suddenly multiply prices tenfold. I think that’s unlikely.
Look at what the effort for an empty conduit costs where you are and if it’s worth it to you. Because if one utility was free for us, the empty conduit costs me nothing, the construction company just includes it like that, it doesn’t cost them anything either except a few euros for materials and 5 minutes of work. If a fifth or sixth utility costs 200€ more, I’d still do it. If it costs 1000€ more, I probably wouldn’t do it. But everyone thinks differently about that.
And yes, if in two or four years I want UnityMedia, they have to dig again at the street and push a cable through my empty conduit.
But they then charge 400€.
They also charge 400€ if they do it new at the beginning, that makes no difference to them. The empty conduit option even means less overall effort for Unity Media.