Why cant these companies work in conjunction with each other ,is it too much to ask or us it a man thing.
The Council are supposed to co-ordinate roadworks however I'm not sure if telecomms may have a waiver over the normal notification to the council of prospective work.
To be fair, OpenReach are normally pretty good at limiting disturbance.
Virgin have started using Openreach ducting under Ofcom's program to share ducting and poles, its early days and in this instance it appears the BT ducting wasn't in place when Virgin were planning.