FTTP is coming....

OK we moved house from a nice 60Mbps FTTC connection to same village but it was 10Mbps & 0.2Mbps up & was unusable so cancelled whole BT line immediately.

As we're rural Norfolk (Cley next the Sea) spoke to BBFN (BDUK) and they got back to me to say that FTTP will go live by March 2020.

Post code check later & lo BT says its "coming soon, register for more updates."

Checked roadworks.org & 21st Oct - 4th Nov BT has the entire village on lock down for ducting & cabling work for fibre.

Now my question is if anyone has a clue how long do these things "usually" take from that point? I know it's how long is a piece of string type question but a rough idea would be awesome or any tips on Websites to keep an eye on for more info?

Thanks looking forward to getting FTTP can't believe it's happening so soon thought it'd be years away for here.

Edited by deleted (Wed 09-Oct-19 17:37:03)

There is no answer. If the promised go-live date is March 2020, then *with luck* it may be live in March 2020. Or it could be later. Or sooner

The site formally known as roadworks.org will show you when there are incursions into the carriageway, but there's a lot of other work involved. Some of it is in pavement chambers (e.g. splicing onto splitters) which normally isn't shown. Plenty of invisible work has to take place at the exchange end too. All sorts of unforeseen delays are possible.

Fingers crossed you get it in March!

From others on the forum, it can be as quick as a month. Depends on ducting and other issues such as trees. Delays as you have implied can happen. Only way to know is to check BBFN's website, or and bt dslchecker.

I'm wondering how accurate is the go live date. I've been given at least 12 months difference by two parties. Which isn't fun.

They seem to be blitzing the village with endless road closuresvtgat week so it looks like they're trying to hit it en masse.

Looks like the fibre is being run from Holt inland so I wonder if they've already done that part of it as there's been a lot of guys about working over recent months & loads of stuff coiled up at bottom of BT poles guess we'll find out soon enough tho. Maybe I'll go & take some tea & biscuits to them on the 21st....

I am in Happisburgh and our infrastructure was put in place in Jan/Feb 2018 but we couldnt order til November till it had all been connectrd together and tested My connection went live in Jan 19. 150Mbps down is so much better than 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12-9-18 area surveyed
8-10-18 ducting laid
16-2-19 fibre laid
14-3-19 available to order
18-4-19 first house in street got fibre
Since then I've firstly been waiting the end of my contract, then in discussions with TalkTalk about when they will be using OR FTTP, then after many in village have gone FTTP and my line was reprofiled, struck a deal with TT which leaves me on an acceptable (in the short term) 10/1 at a reasonable price until we know what TT FTTP prices will be.

Good luck on getting a quick connection.

We were told 18 months ago we would have FTTP by Christmas 2018

That never happened so got further notification we would be able to order by at least April 2019.

Another face palm as we are still waiting to this day for this to go live but fibre is hanging from poles outside my premises right now but due to one thing and another still nothing.

Fingers crossed you have better luck.

Whats the website to check the latest fttp updates in your area? Is there a postcode search somewhere?

The village down the road from me has just gone live (CT3 1JB) - 2Mbit ADSL to 1000Mbit FTTP!

Cabling was started around July. So around 3 months from cabling to availability.

Another area close to me had fibre cabling hanging from poles around March 2019, it looks like final cabling work has been completed so this should go live soon.

When the engineers focus on an area, they appear to be able to get things completed pretty quickly.

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

Whats the website to check the latest fttp updates in your area? Is there a postcode search somewhere?

Openreach.com

Thanks

In reply to a post by slimj:

The village down the road from me has just gone live (CT3 1JB) - 2Mbit ADSL to 1000Mbit FTTP!

Cabling was started around July. So around 3 months from cabling to availability.

Another area close to me had fibre cabling hanging from poles around March 2019, it looks like final cabling work has been completed so this should go live soon.

When the engineers focus on an area, they appear to be able to get things completed pretty quickly.

Interesting in terms of difference in constructions times. That said the latter one in your example is more likely to have been spline cabling works issue or something else unknown to the average person looking at the works. Mine is complicated by being in the New forest.

You can sign up on open reach website for updates. I asked our local BDUK for info as our VDSL was 10Mbps down & 0.2Mbps up & was utterly useless & they got back to me almost immediately with info about FTTP coming by March.

Well the BDUK lot were really good about fttc way back & were spot on with dates, ordering went live Christmas day 2015 it was like they waited to give it to me for Christmas lol.

Judging by the number of BT roadworks on the website they are looking at doing a lot of work over half term so fingers crossed, I shall go ply them with hot drinks when they're near my house.

I hope they sort yours out soon that's just awful.

Thanks. The work they have planned looks immense on roadworks it's road closures iced the entire village it looks amazing & for once I shall not moan about road closures

Had to give up on BT here even fttc we got 10Mbps down & the 0.2Mbps up killed it & given BT expect same money as those getting 80Mbps I was like errrr nah.

Liking sound of the speed with 2 xboxes, Netflix, phones, tablets wife & 2 kids (one teen one near teen) need the speed.

Get about 100Mbps from EE now but it's expensive & capped data

Thanks for the info

How do you know hat the area had been surveyed and when the survey was complete.

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

How do you know hat the area had been surveyed and when the survey was complete.

I knew because gf was leaving house and the bloke doing the survey was leaning on our bin, so she asked him what he was doing.

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4600807-ft...

Edited by burble (Fri 11-Oct-19 22:55:04)

Thank you.

Just to update

I walked the route today following line to pole etc and the 2 nearest poles already have the equipment on them & the fibre rolled up at the bottom of the 2 poles. So reading the roadworks they now need to one 100m down the road to the furthest pole & then connect to the 2 poles with the fibre stuff already on.

At least it means it should be happening that the stuff is there waiting for the spine works (which looks like it's going to the cabinet interestingly after spare saw that article about using spare fttc fibre not that it matters)

Fibre on our pole

At least it means it should be happening that the stuff is there waiting for the spine works (which looks like it's going to the cabinet interestingly after spare saw that article about using spare fttc fibre not that it matters)

Fibre coming from the PCP direction doesn't mean they are using spare fibre from the FTTC cabinet.

Fibre usually comes from the direction of the cabinet.
There's ducting between the Agg Node and the cabinet already.
The ducting branches out to homes from the cabinet.

Many of the FTTP builds go from Agg Node to cabinet, then cabinet to home (without touching the cabinet).

There's probably not ducting from the Agg Node to where the fibre is going so they go via the cabinet.

If there's a spare fibre at the FTTC cabinet that won't be needed and that's all that would be required for FTTP build in question then OpenReach could indeed be using that method.

Hope your FTTP install goes well.

Edited by j0hn83 (Sat 19-Oct-19 12:46:03)

I never said it did mean that & I said it didn't matter anyway I just said it was interesting given the previous article esp given as both projects are BDUK fttc as a stepping stone so to speak.

It's more likely that it's coming from there either as spare fibre installed when the fttc cab was built or that the ducting runs to that point anyway (well obviously it doesn't directly as the fttc cab is a fair distance from the old copper cab on the other side of a busy A road & many metres further on but I'm sure you know what I mean) seeing as the only thing the other side of that point is the North Sea or marshes.

Edited by deleted (Sat 19-Oct-19 13:39:14)