FTTP for Christmas

Been following the Openreach rollout of FTTP here in Bo'ness. We have 2 new build phases being developed beside me and the first few homes are now occupied. The new builds have Virgin coax and Openreach FTTP as standard. There is also another new build development across town as well which is due to have FTTP backfilled as they only have ADSL.

Openreach have now gone back round the rest of the older homes beside me to add FTTP. Install took a couple of weeks with light levels were being checked last Monday.

Yesterday FTTP on demand went from 330/30 to 1000/220. Today native FTTP is now orderable, didn't expect that to change on Christmas day.

You must have been a good boy for Christmas

Crarcher
Well have you ordered yet? you could have it working for the new year? what better way to start 2020.

The search is on. Just wish there were a few more providers to choose from.

My fibre was only being pulled into the street on the 13th, and was orderable yesterday.
They are not hanging around it seems

In reply to a post by crarcher:

The search is on. Just wish there were a few more providers to choose from.

It's only a matter of time before all the main contenders offer FTTP over openreach fibre, your choice is if to go with what's on offer right now or wait for a while. TalkTalk and Sky should be onboard within a few months.

crarcher

As you are associated with a FTTP only area that most of the big ISPs will serve, you may just have to phone and ask especially if you want to stay with the same supplier.

Many of them only seem to deal with FTTP on the phone rather than the web.

If you e-mail Andrew your post code it will help him keep on top of the FTTP rollout

Pete

Once they have an area live the subsequent rollout seems to be going really fast except where they hit individual problems.

The same happened with FTTC cabs once they got going, they were either very fast or moved to the back of the queue if they hit an issue.

Let Andrew know your post code as it helps him keep up to date on the rollout

Have a good New Year

Well it took that 4 years from installing our FTTC cabinet to the service going live so this was a bit of a pleseant surprise.

First evidence I saw of any work here was around 6th December. Cables were still being pulled around 11/12th and light tests on 16th/17th. There ware 2 ducts blocked that needed work done aarently but it doesn't seem to have delayed anything.

Just to add to this, our fibre has gone live today on openreach checker and is available to order via BT retail today. Work seemed to be completed 2 weeks ago (last time Openreach van was near), surprised its gone live this week though given Christmas. Going to hold off ordering for a few weeks in hope that someone else starts offering FTTP due to the new year or Zen lower their prices to be near to BT's.

Feel really lucky for a our farm to get Fibre faster than almost all towns and cities.

In reply to a post by dogcat:

Feel really lucky for a our farm to get Fibre faster than almost all towns and cities.

Careful. Talk like that will upset those who feel Openreach intentionally persecute less urban areas out of spite.

I'm holding out as well. I'm on Virgin just now, so have a bit of luxury around available options.

BT is tempting but missed out on the prepaid card offered earlier on the month which would have been tempting when combined with the likes of Quidco.

The only good thing about BT is the semi predictability of the price rises which will be in the order of 80p to a £1 instead of the £2-3 Virgin usually try to push through each year.

Our FTTC cab went live Christmas day 2014 & I was the first person in the village to order & go live.

Now waiting on FTTP as the equipment is on the poles with the fibre coiled up hanging from the foot pegs. Just waiting on the fibre being pulled to the aggregation node, was supposed to be in Oct when BT had the village closed on roadworks.org but never happened supposed to be happening by March but no way of knowing...

Fingers crossed as got nothing but 4g right now & xbox updates are a huge problem lol

Can't wait for Gigabit fibre...

Well went and ordered BT yesterday. Install date of 17th January.

Open reach turned up at 8:30am today to rod the duct which was very quick, it's blocked, looking at it, my guess is, it's small stones that surround the pipe and dead snails. which were under the duct cover.

Dig has been approved and the engineer said would be in 7-10 days. Sadly the BT app is now showing install has slipped to 17 Feb with PSTN still on for 17th Jan.

Are they likely to charge for a month of phone line rental I don't want or need?

In reply to a post by dogcat:

Just to add to this, our fibre has gone live today on openreach checker and is available to order via BT retail today. Work seemed to be completed 2 weeks ago (last time Openreach van was near), surprised its gone live this week though given Christmas. Going to hold off ordering for a few weeks in hope that someone else starts offering FTTP due to the new year or Zen lower their prices to be near to BT's.

Feel really lucky for a our farm to get Fibre faster than almost all towns and cities.

I'd imagine most ISPs are likely to wait until March when the new pricing comes in.