In reply to a post by busterboy:

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

I imagine its an Openreach Surveyor who goes out & checks if the route is clear between the user's property and the fibre DP. Your property on the checker should have been updated to "no anticipated issues" after your had FTTP installed but I guess Openreach forgot to update this section for your line. Not a big deal though. This is what appears for my FTTP line:

https://i.postimg.cc/BbQ8Cy4N/dsl-checker.jpg

Does that mean you could actually the 1000 / 220 service should you want it.

Yes I could, once BT Wholesale lift the temporary suspension and ISPs start selling the service nationwide. More info here:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4609745-ftt...

My folks stay in an area which is shortly to FTTP enabled. The doorway box is in place but status is ‘planned’ the checker states

“ Our records show the following FTTP network service information for these premises:-Single Dwelling Unit Residential UG partial Direct In Ground”

Now my parents property is at the end of a long rural drive, with the cable buried (varying degrees of)

Do Openreach do direct burial fibre, or are they likely to insist on installing ducting or poles (would be 3 or 4 easily given route) ? I can imagine the armoured cable minimumly would perhaps fly under the £1k limit but I fear adding poles etc would easily surpass it

There is no current ‘armoured UG fibre’ as might be used for a direct in ground solution.

Poles would be cheaper.

Thanks, I guess we’ll just have to see when the time comes and it’s surveyed. I can easily imagine if poles were required it’d become expensive quickly(but hopefully not outrageously so)

Edited by mwarby (Fri 08-May-20 20:53:36)