Taking your basic question, assume that there are 1,000 installations, requiring 1 hour's work, to be done in 1 day, of 7 working hours, would need 143 (trained) installers.

This assumes no problems, no travelling time etc.

Assuming that there are about 20,000,000 domestic premises which could potentially have FTTC, On the above assumptions, it would require 20,000 days to cover the UK with that team.

On a 5 day working week, 4,000 weeks, about 77 years.

Obviously rather lengthy!!

To achieve it in a more realistic 7.7 years, we would need about 1,430 Installers, not allowing for holidays, sickness etc, which would take it up to about 1,800 Installers.

There seems to be general agreement that each installation takes more than 1 hour, so assuming that this is 2 hours, then we need 3,600 Installers.

20,000,000 domestic premises would accommodate about 60,000,000 population.



So 1 Installer over that period of 7.7 years,to almost 2021, would cover a population of around 17,000 persons - about a small town in size.

I had Fibre installed yesterday and didn't realise how fast it could be in terms of installing. I thought it needed to connect to the master socket and then data cable to where you wanted it. but the engineer just went to the faceplate in my study and replaced it with the new I guess master socket and 5 mins late tested and done.

I asked him how many installs he had that day and he said 7 more after that.

Now it lierally took him less than 10 mins from start to finish so I'm guessing either he finish early or the engineer's operate over a bigger range - not factoring a lot of installs might not be as simple as mine was (data cable extensions etc).

Sticker is on at delivery time.

If it has mains and hardware powered up you might here a slight hum from fans etc when its quiet

Although the engineer may have only spent only 10 minutes at your home he will also have first been to your cabinet & connect you to your fibre cable. This can take up to 30 minutes.

Re cabinets going "live", I was connected to fibre last October. The cabinets were in place for a good 6 months before the fibre cable was laid from the exchange to the village. This took a lot of work as much of the original ducting had collapsed & they had to dig up the road in about a dozen places.

Ah I see then seems fine.

He seemed to be in a rush but did his job testing connection/showing me it working and then testing phone line so A+ from me.

The data cable if ordered would show up on the job sheet, it is free, but time only budgeted for it the HWS was ordered by the ISP.

The engineer that did my fttc install in Northamptonshire was off to Scotland the following week to do some up there.

@ccxo

I was searching in the wrong place as I am in Scotland. The site I needed is www.roadworksscotland.org There is a jobsheet for tomorrow on my PCP. Yeay!!

Well, the cabinet which serves my line is now live, whirring away merrily, although the checker still gives an activation date of December. (As does the cabinet further along the road, closer to the exchange on the same loop which has been whirring away for 3 weeks now) There has been no roadworks or digging of any kind which to my mind means that the fibre and power have been in place for some time, just not powered on.
Which leads me back to my original contention, that the lack of engineers available to do home installs is the sole reason for delaying availability and not that everything wasn't in place yet.
BTW- Two emails to [email protected] went unanswered. I had thought that that particular email address was set up specifically to do just that. Answer enquiries. Mmnn....

Cabinet maybe installed, but is the exchange live? Does the exchange need an upgrade? is the fibre terminated at the exchange? Is there a fibre aggregation node required? Has it been fully tested and commissioned? And lost more possibles.