Open Reach checker going backward?

Hi All,

Does anyone have experience of the Open Reach broadband checker going backward?

I live in a rural a village on the outskirts of York called Hessay.We are connected to the Rufforth exchange (MYRUF) Whilst the Rufforth exchange has been FTTC enabled for years the cabinet that serves the village of Hessay (Cabinet 3) has not yet been upgraded.

Using the Open Reach fibre checker it had progressed to "In Build". This now appears to have moved back to "In Scope"

Using the Magenta CodeLook I get "FTTC being Built, live due by August 2017" (this was July at one point, but hey, what is a month delay after waiting several years)

Should I be worried that it's likely something has gone wrong and we're not going to be getting fibre anytime soon?

Any help appreciated.

The plans do ebb and flow since things can crop up that push back work that was scheduled. So as long as the cab is still showing in the plans its don't give up just yet time

They may have had to go back to the drawing board if when they went to site the cab there were some unforseen reason that it couldn't be located where the designers has originally planned.

It's what happened to our cabinet originally. One second expecting fibre to appear, next OR had gone back to the drawing board. Not all doom and gloom though.

As it happened the 6 month delay was a vast improvement on the original plans. The revised cabinet location ended up being sited In the village instead of a couple of km away. We get nice speeds Just a shame about the copper bit though. I've had more problems to do with that part in 18 months than any issues to do with the fibre bit.

Thanks all for the replies.

Sadly it seems it is not something quite as innocent as a technical hitch. I queried the change with open reach, and got an impressively speedy reply:

We�ve investigated and found that your line was a part of FTTC (Fibre to the CABINET) project. This project was rolled out under SEP (superfast extension programme) project. However, the project is cancelled. As it is a Government owned project, we don�t have information about the project�s cancellation reason(s).

Anyone know why a SEP rollout would be cancelled and what we can realistically do to get things movig forward? Any and all help appreciated,

Most likely cost. It became too expensive per premises to be considered value for money. May come back into scope via FTTC or FTTP.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Most likely cost. It became too expensive per premises to be considered value for money. May come back into scope via FTTC or FTTP.

Agreed, on my exchange which was mostly to be FTTP and rest as FTTC as part as the Commercial rollout back in 2011.
Most if not all the FTTC and a small percentage of the FTTP were completed back then leaving the rest partially completed.

BT are now coming back to complete that work still as part as a commercial project which is now due in 9 months time (i.e. Feb-Mar 2018) so the old commercial rollouts are starting to be done.

Granted depending on what has already been put in place before the halt will result in what gets rolled out in that area, some are still FTTP whereas some areas are being pushed back to FTTC.

I know a lot of Commercial work in London got put on hold in favour of BDUK contractual dead lines.

Paul

Your area swapped from the North Yorkshire scheme to the West Yorkshire scheme for SEP, and I can't imagine the whole project has been cancelled.

One port of call would be the Superfast West Yorkshire team, while another would be your MP.

This article mentions Hessay for 2018:
http://www.juliansturdy.co.uk/news-and-articles/upda...

A similar thing has happened to me. The fibre checker has been all over the place for years, going forward and backwards all the time. For a long time it was saying I'd get fttp, with only the last couple of stages left to complete on the checker, to do with testing and the likes. It was saying December until December arrived. Now it's gone back to saying in scope, with no mention of fttp. I'm in the middle house of a block of three terraced houses. The houses connected to mine, to the right and left, both come up as accepting orders. My broadband provider can't let me order until openreach says I can. The fttp box is a stones throw away and looks to be connected up.

In that scenario checker may be wrong, and providers need to prod Openreach and failing that its email me [email protected] and will prod Openreach directly, just need the address details

Thanks. I believe Andrews and Arnold have prodded Openreach via email today. They might have got confused because I ported my landline number to AASIP voip and they issued a new geographical number to my line. I'll be glad when fibre comes because I've had an ongoing, unresolved REIN problem. I've had to constantly tweak settings all the time in an attempt to maintain a connection. Sometimes I just have no connection at all and just have to tolerate it. It is believed to be coming from a neighbours solar panel equipment.

Do you really mean FTTP? It doesn't have "boxes". It sounds more like FTTC.

Mine did that. Finally got the cabinet last month, about 7 years late.

Maybe referring to the green pole mounted passive optical splitters

Yes, I mean fttp, Fibre To Premises. I use the term "box" loosely. These boxes are not really box shape, not like a cabinet is a big box. My cabinet is over a mile away, in the same village as the exchange. These are small boxes. There are loads of them in my area, on the lamp posts and telegraph poles. This is what my green box looks like: http://buxtedvillage.org.uk/2016/01/11/fttc-and-fttp...

Its a GPON fibre splitter and at top of poles there should be some black connectors or a bottle shaped object.

Yeah that's right. It had the fibre coiled up but it hasn't been coiled up for a little while now. There's a metal shroud going down the pole. The splitter boxes have numbers scribbled all over them. Anyway, mine is just on the other side of the road from me. I can't make use of it yet.

Good news is I've managed to order the FTTP I've been waiting for, for around 6 yrs. I bought a brand new router about 4 or 5 yrs ago in anticipation. Will be able to do away with my bridge. Although, the router I currently use as my ADSL modem, would actually be compatible, according to AASIP. So it's not the case that all modems with adsl capability are incompatible, as I had previously assumed. Hopefully I'll get a decent speed,but above all else, I'll be glad to see the back of the REIN problem. BT maintain it comes from a house with a solar panel, from the inverter. However, I'm more suspicious of the neighbour that has a field of panels. I don't think it's a hundred percent REIN. I suspect BT can't be bothered to maintain the copper. Not sure I blame them. So the black things are connectors?