FTTP system help please

We have what I think is an odd situation here in West Sussex. The County Council tell me they have funded a small fibre run along a road in a very poor broadband area which feeds a few houses. It appears to be FTTrN, since it runs along poles and there are drops at some properties. It seems to be difficult to establish where the feed node is or how the line interacts with a new OR 'pole' run from the same road junction, but along a different road.

The 'last' active pole finishes a few hundred yards from where a friend is trying to get a quote for a group of 18 properties - his, and the rest further along the road.

What is the mechanism involved in this run? Is it simply a case of extending the run along the road from the last pole or is there likely to be some limitation on the number of available fibres?

What is the policy on these County funded runs? Is there any requirement for the (publicly funded) run to be 'extendable'?

I suggest that you find out who installed the county council funded fibre run you mentioned. Are you sure that it is not FTTP?

If Openreach did the installation, then your friend could then get a quote from Openreach which might make use of any spare fibres. You could ask the council council if they would make a contribution towards the cost of providing connections to your friend and his neighbours.

How do we know if it is FTTP? What defines it as such? It has appeared as 'available' to properties it passes with no connection charge.

In reply to a post by mikejp:

How do we know if it is FTTP? What defines it as such? It has appeared as 'available' to properties it passes with no connection charge.

You could ask the council, one of the connected houses or maybe take pictures of how the drop wires are connected at the telegraph pole end. There are people on this website who know what the Openreach FTTP equipment looks like.

FTTP signals go back to equipment in an exchange. FTTrN is very rare, the requirement for nodes to be powered was a disadvantage.

Well it won�t be fibre to the remote node, as you suggested .... Openreach do not provide that as a product.

Some pictures of the plan as is might help with its identification.

Problem is, Michael, the council are not being very forthcoming. Any of the properties 'passed' by the fibre on the poles could visit https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/community-... and be sent to 'choose provider' and when BT is selected they receive an offer of 'Ultrafast Fibre 2Plus' for £59.99 a month.

So, anyone explain please what is going on here? Is this 'FTTP' and why does it stop after a km or so? This is an area where 3mbps is currently a good speed.

All very confusing. Getting a picture of the drop is not easy for me since I am some distance away.. I will ask my friend. I have a scxreenshot of the BT 'offers'.

What does this link show for one of the addresses with the new drop wires? Does it show that FTTP is available?

FTTP is expensive to install which is quite possibly why only a few properties were connected.

WBC FTTP Up to 1000 Up to 220 -- Available 1 Stage

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WBC FTTP Up to 1000 Up to 220 -- Available 1 Stage

That's what it says for my address and we have fibre on the pole, the 1 stage means they only have to take fibre from the pole to building.

So it is FTTP. I suggest that your friend enquires about the Openreach Community Fibre Scheme as described here