I'm in Hamilton, and today an Ultra Fast Fibre contractor knocks on our door, as he needs to dig up the front of our landscaping to install a fibre pedestal.

This thing is massive - at least a metre tall once installed - and their plan is to install it on our boundary with no other objects close by to detract from it, aside from some low grasses and rocks, so I am extremely concerned about this being a huge eyesore. We will have no options to hide it: Can't plant a tree in front of it obviously, and the weird angle makes a fence of any height just as bizarre a placement (hence the rocks and grasses). This one object would quite literally cancel out many thousands of dollars of improvements to our front verge.

Now, I'm not arguing over the necessity of having this things around the place (just like the old power and phone boxes everyone has), but seeing that it is so *huge* there should be some thought put in to their placements, and indeed there are about 3 other places it could go where fibre terminates the neighboring houses - including our own opposite boundary where fences/shubbery/letterboxes could help soften it. Even the neighbours would prefer it not stick out like a sore thumb for their own street appeal's sake and approve a change of plan! Add to that is that we're in a high traffic area, the exposed location means the pedestal *will* get knocked over. Be it car, e-scooter, kid on bike.

I have the records from beforeudig, and our place is not significant in any way (actually third-to-last in the run before the street is then served from the opposite end) so it's not like it's a termination point that feeds multiple dwellings either. Also this is a street where fibre is already installed about 4 years back and most dwellings have it so this is not part of a new rollout.

Can anyone offer any insight? The UFF Service Desk has given us mixed messages, and if I am preparing to push back it would be handy to know the technical constraints as to the placement rather than it be one termination before or after this current proposal.

Thanks in advance for any help.