How do I find out when fiber might go live

I was just heading out for a drive and I noticed some guys laying fiber in the road near me. I asked if it was private and they said "nah, we're doing it all for BT" so it looks like my area will be getting a better connection.

Can anyone point me in a direction that'll allow me to figure out when it might be coming?

Thanks

Put your address in here:
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband

If your address is targeted for FTTP upgrade it will say sothing like "faster internet is coming to your area soon" under FTTP.

It won't give you a timescale (could be up to a year) but it will give you hope!

In reply to a post by zag164:

Put your address in here:
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband

If your address is targeted for FTTP upgrade it will say sothing like "faster internet is coming to your area soon" under FTTP.

It won't give you a timescale (could be up to a year) but it will give you hope!

It does say about gigabit/fttp in my area is coming soon.
I already have a couple of ISP's i'm using so I'm in no rush to add a third but for gigabit I'll do it!

In reply to a post by zag164:

Put your address in here:
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband

If your address is targeted for FTTP upgrade it will say sothing like "faster internet is coming to your area soon" under FTTP.

It won't give you a timescale (could be up to a year) but it will give you hope!

Up to a year doesn't sound too bad. Mines recently started saying the above, too.
How fast could it come in a best case scenario? a few months?

Edited by Xuse (Fri 09-Oct-20 19:30:32)

With the Fibre first cities they are done quite quickly but delays can happen. If its a bduk install then that can take alot longer

Well it's a waiting game I suppose. We're in a village so it might come under a rural thing but who knows. I've signed up to all of the sites to get alerted to a change. As happy as I am with my network its still not ideal and relies heavily on routing rules within my house to make things seem faster than they are.

I know I've still got the fastest internet in a fair distance due to the combined connections but 18 months ago I lived somewhere that I had 400mb and became accustomed to it.

If your area uses the https://one.network/ you can look on there for roadwork permits, it's free to register and then you can select a time period of more than two weeks, look for telephone works mentioning fibre, pon, or fibre cities as an indication. If your area is not showing anything then the council may have a site.

Our area Ramsgate and Broadstairs appeared on the Fibre list around the start of the year, they surveyed our estates ducts in February, but no installation has yet been done, although a very small bit of Broadstairs is live. They have mainly started in Ramsgate first, and are working their way across, see https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#...

So in answer as to how long, it could be very quick depending on how much work they've already done or it could be very long. If your supplied overhead by poles then it may be quicker, or if your on a recently new estate with good ducts it could be quicker, our estate was built in the seventies and there are no ducts from the street to the houses, mine is direct in ground so I think they will do the easier areas first.

As they are already laying fibre it will most likely be sooner rather than later, but the top of my brothers road went live weeks ago but he's still not live, even though they've worked on his telephone pole some time ago.

Mines has openreach all over the place but the only thing it says on one.network is 'advanced planning'.

Openreach started work in our area back in early march and finished for mid september, our go live date for FTTP was on the 22nd of last month.

Just remember that it isn't just the local spline cabling works being the issue, but also the major backbone out of the area. If that isn't up to snuff, you can be waiting a while.