New Build - any options to get Fibre?

Hi there,

I'm not sure if anyone can help or give any advice.

We are soon to move into a new build house on a site of 10 new houses.

Our village has Fibre Broadband.

We have just found out when calling BT to change our service to the new house that the site doesn't have fibre. When we asked the builders about this they said that "we did get a quote from BT when the site was first set up but it was too expensive as they make a large charge to new homes sites of less than 30 houses. So we decided to go with normal broadband." Now the site is pretty much finished so all the cabling has been laid.

Our current house has fibre, and the village phone cabinet is FTTC enabled but it seems that the new site which is very close to our current house only has standard broadband.

Does anyone know if we have any options to get fibre at our new house as opposed to standard broadband?

Many thanks.

What does the checker say for the new address ?

The builder was describing FTTP, you appear to be on about FTTC to your current address, so if that�s near the new place, there�s a fair chance it�ll be served by the same cab, and therefore have FTTC available.

Oh and be sure to ask the developer for a discount

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Oh and be sure to ask the developer for a discount

Find it amazing that these housing developers still don't think Good internet Access is required in 2018.

I share no pity for people who don't check all this before hand when buying a property nowadays either. It takes all of a few minutes.

No wonder the housing market went under.

This housing developer has sold at least one of the ten houses . Probably all of them.

Very, very short-sighted and narrow minded by the developer.

Using a few round figures - say BT quoted £20k to install, that would be £2k per house.

If you are paying say £265k for the property, would you have still gone for it at £267k or £269k ? You probably would have done, the extra £2k slipped into the price and you would never have known.

Even at £40k or £50k the amount could easily be dropped into the selling price.



Another case of the developer unfairly blaming BT, just as they and politicians always do.

Just a heads up, the OP also posted on the official BT Forum, where I also post.

Turns out the new and old properties are both connected to the same Cab (3).

As yet no line is installed so the OP's new address won't show any FTTC availability, and they have been advised this.

HTH.

Quite, new builds should have fttp as standard, this is a 3 way issue, OR, the developer and the government and invariably they blame each other

Yes at some stage we will need to move to faster pon services but realistically thats maybe 7 to 8 years away.. The only service that i can think of that truly needs huge bandwidth, is 8k tv ..

BT will always be willing to provide the best service then can - FTTP or FTTC but the developers also need to have the right mindset. Yes, there is a cost and someone should pay and that someone should be the developer.

Can you imagine the furore if a new build did not have water or electricity? Guess who pays for that ... yes, the developer. So, why the different attitude to connectivity?

So so got the nuts and bolts of this right, 10 minutes after the OP posted ...