When is FTTP likely to go live?

This is probably one of those "how long is a piece of string" question, but here goes... I can finally see that these distribution boxes (?) have gone up on our poles - not all the way up, just half way for now so there's clearly more work to do. Openreach checker shows no change yet.

Is there any way to know roughly how long it's going to be before FTTP products are actually available? Thank you for any wild ideas!

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It could be a week, or it could be a couple of months.

Ours was a year, a bit longer string was needed

How long’s a piece of fibre?

Must be reasonably long judging by the cable loops left under those CBT’s. 🤣

a year would be awful, it's like 20 metres away from me!

Sadly, there have been cases of Openreach running cables and CBTs to poles 3 or 4 years ago, which are still not live. Projects can be abandoned, due to end of funding or unexpected engineering difficulties found. Fingers crossed, hope you have better luck

Edited by candlerb (Thu 15-Jul-21 09:07:42)

Thanks folks; yes it's unfortunately one of those things we just can't know, we'll see how long it actually takes..!

Let's hope we both get it sooner rather than later.

Well would you look at that - it was all hung up properly today. Some mild hope remains..!
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Kinda pees me off …. they lob it up there in the bucket of a hoist … but fail to assess how tricky they’ve made it for the average Joe who has to actually climb up and work on the damn thing ……

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Kinda pees me off …. they lob it up there in the bucket of a hoist … but fail to assess how tricky they’ve made it for the average Joe who has to actually climb up and work on the damn thing ……

But that would not wrooy you ... I believe you are considered to be in the "Superman Class"

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In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Kinda pees me off …. they lob it up there in the bucket of a hoist … but fail to assess how tricky they’ve made it for the average Joe who has to actually climb up and work on the damn thing ……

But that would not wrooy you ... I believe you are considered to be in the "Superman Class"

Not me guv …. when I was young, lithe and limber maybe…..

Seriously though, blocks like that pictured will become abundant as more and more line plant gets chucked up there … unless you’re very lucky, you just cannot get your working position belt in the correct spot to allow for a safe and comfortable climb.

The guy who did mines just went up on a ladder. No way to get one of those machines into the pole as it's smack in the middle of my back garden.

They did that on the 6th still not available yet slightly worried there's more going on than meets the eye.

Has a nice badge on it saying 'Fibre Overhead' now though.

Usually after the CBT has been installed, OR engineers will go up the pole and check each port is working as part of the commissioning process. Once that’s done, keep an eye on the availability checker.