III.3.9: Crossings – All crossings are to be made perpendicular to the roadway. – Road crossing machines should be used with a depth of not less than 1m. – Any cables should be protected with appropriate ducts along the whole crossing length. III.3.10: Duct Sharing Fiber Optic installation conductor shall install at least two (2) pipes with a minimum of twelve (12) cores on access network and 4 ducts on backbone network in order to facilitate fiber and duct sharing. The payment of these reserved pipes and cores by a new operator will follow the Guidelines for fiber and duct sharing. III.3.11: Sharing Point and Shared Building Cabling The shared building cabling and sharing point for fiber installation in building with multiple operators is mandatory in order to: – Reduce fiber installation and maintenance costs in the building – Reduce disturbance (noise, infrastructure works, dust…) for inhabitants – Avoid cabling duplication if more than one Fiber to the home (FTTH) operators are in a building The Shared building cabling combined with the sharing point should support both Point to Point and Point to Multipoint access network topologies. The first applicant to connect a building should provide a sharing point that might support sharing of four operators in case of need to share the cable. 11