FTTP INSTALLATION

This might be too obvious, but I have tried a search to no avail.

FTTP, Is the actual fibre optic cable installed into the house?

I reside in a flat, all the telephone cables are installed in non accessible ducting.

However the DP is accessible, cleverly mounted on a well used first floor landing wall.

Virgin Media refuse to install any form of cable.

FTTP = Fibre to the Premises so if your premises is a house then yes it's fibre to the house.

If you're in a block of flats it could be fibre to the basement and ethernet or VDSL through the flats. Or it could be (but less likely) fibre to the flat.

Is there a management company or somebody that won't play ball with VM ?

VM will only install if the cost of installation is less than £300 so any moderate cable run or anything they consider awkward and they will refuse to do it.

They have even refused to install to whole estates based on this clculation even when there is a cab on the road.

I believe it is a policy of VM not to retrofit multiple occupancy buildings......their phrase for flats.

There is a VM cabinet outside the front door.

Virgin don't do FTTP installations.

Virgin Media install co-ax cable with a phone line attached to it. The fibre is from a cabinet in the street back to their local node.

Virgin to install would have to get wayleave orders from the owner of the building to install into your flat

All the BT/OR cables are underground, deeply buried in the garden.

All this is just probing for info.

There are no plans to upgrade to fibre for MYSEA

OR cables while buried should be in tubing that allows another line to be pushed/pulled through if need be.

Virgin cannot use them without paying OR.

Hi,

For the FTTP trial running in Bradwell Abbey at the moment the fibre is run into the house. However at the moment they aren't doing blocks of flats. We've had one flat above a shop done but that's as far as they're going at the moment with plans to look at flats hopefully later in the year as they add more areas.

In reply to a post by Brunel:

I believe it is a policy of VM not to retrofit multiple occupancy buildings......their phrase for flats.

There is a VM cabinet outside the front door.

it 'is' a policy of VM to retrofit multiple occupancy buildings..

i stay in glasgow city center and my building is multiple occupancy,also the high rise/block round the corner is also fitted out with VM

22 floors high and 6 flats per floor.....

hope this helps your case

Edited by djfunkdup (Sat 22-Jan-11 19:56:08)

The key word is retrofit.

In reply to a post by Brunel:

The key word is retrofit.

i am aware of what the word 'retrofit' means..
just in case you dont ;

ret·ro·fit (rtr-ft)
v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits
v.tr.
1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in existence or available at the time of original manufacture.
2. To install or fit (a device or system, for example) for use in or on an existing structure, especially an older dwelling.
v.intr.
1. To fit into or onto equipment already in existence or service.
2. To substitute new or modernized parts or systems for older equipment: an industrial plant that was retrofitting to meet new safety regulations.
n.
1. Something that has been retrofitted or that has undergone retrofitting.
2. An instance of modernizing or expanding with new or modified parts, devices, systems, or equipment: a retrofit for the heating system.;;;
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as i said erlier..the area i stay in has been upgraded several times...and the cabs are being upgraded later on in the year for the 100Mb and the increase in the upload....