Poles have FTTP hardware but not active after five months?

Does anyone have any reasons why several poles have been connected up with what looks like FTTP hardware and after five months it is still not active in the checker?

The poles have a figure of eight type connector/holder half way up, an additional open type "box" at the top with two yellow pigtails connected, the OR engineers have done some connections at the bottom of the pole as they had holes in the pavement and signs saying Ultrafast broadband.

No other poles anywhere near the area have been done it is just 3 / 4 poles on a random street from what I can tell.

Any ideas of what could be going on would be great?

Thanks

Edited by think26872 (Mon 07-Mar-22 12:27:54)

Picture of apparatus on the pole would be good

Lots of reasons.

Could be FTTP on demand. Could be a leased line. Could be track joints for fibre passing through. Could even be something installed in the wrong area completely by mistake.

It could be that an order was cancelled. Could be FTTP project was cancelled due to unforeseen extra engineering work required, e.g. in the route back to the fibre aggregation node. Could be that beancounters decided it was no longer financially viable, and diverted resources elsewhere.

If you post a picture, someone may be able to comment on the "two yellow pigtails" as that sounds a bit odd. If it's FTTP you'd normally expect to see a Connectorised Block Terminal, which has 4, 8 or 12 covered "teats" where end-user connections plug in. Exterior fibre cabling is normally black or black with yellow stripe.

The poles have a figure of eight type connector/holder half way up

That sounds like an anti creep device for the overhead cable.
The fibre is probably passing through but no actual hardware to connect service to you.

Terrible angle but this is a match except there are what appears to be two yellow pigtails not one going into the ones I can see (these yellow pigtails are probably yellow labels I think looking at other pictures). On some poles there are actually two of these "boxes" at the top of the poles with two yellow labels each - i.e. four yellow labels in total.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/assets/images/news-20... (top of pole left hand side)

Yes I can see black cable with a yellow stripe and it appears to be wound around in a figure of eight "holder" before continuing on to the top of the pole.

I estimate BT have spent 2-3 weeks putting in this installation sometimes with 3-4 vans and multiple engineers. Would they really spend all this time/money and not finished it at what seems to be the last hurdle - four poles, all with fibre spanned up and across them, new fibre "boxes" at the top and dig up footpaths to connect at the bottom of each pole?

I need to have a more complete walk around the area still think these four poles are the only sign of FTTP in the area. At least this being connected and appearing in the checker would give me hope for the future that I would eventually be able to get FTTP.

Edited by think26872 (Tue 08-Mar-22 19:30:02)

Yep, the box on the left, with the downwards-pointing lugs, is the CBT. And there may be two CBTs on a pole that serves more than 12 properties (directly or indirectly, i.e. in some cases the drop wire goes via one or more other poles to reach the property)

In reply to a post by think26872:

Would they really spend all this time/money and not finished it at what seems to be the last hurdle

You would hope not - but I'm afraid it *has* been known to happen.

In reply to a post by think26872:

Does anyone have any reasons why several poles have been connected up with what looks like FTTP hardware and after five months it is still not active in the checker?

The poles have a figure of eight type connector/holder half way up, an additional open type "box" at the top with two yellow pigtails connected, the OR engineers have done some connections at the bottom of the pole as they had holes in the pavement and signs saying Ultrafast broadband.

No other poles anywhere near the area have been done it is just 3 / 4 poles on a random street from what I can tell.

Any ideas of what could be going on would be great?

Thanks

To put some context to it, these things can take weeks or more typically take months...or longer. A year is not unheard of. Openreach (nor indeed many fibre builders) rarely if ever build in contiguous, sequential fashion - there are many elements to a working FTTP service all the way back to and including exchange work. Work often gets held up, ducts are blocked, pole are rotten/weak or unclimbable, roadworks permits take months to get, teams that are working on parallel build activity can get pulled away. Resources needed from other teams are often needed and aren't available immediately. Its all stacks up.

Candlerb's connection on FoD took over a year. Mine took around nine months. Five is a walk in park

Unfortunately outside plant rollouts and FTTP especially are a complex, timely beast to bring to fruiton.Pateince is a virtue.

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Candlerb's connection on FoD took over a year. Mine took around nine months. Five is a walk in park

Unfortunately outside plant rollouts and FTTP especially are a complex, timely beast to bring to fruiton.Pateince is a virtue.

I keep my fingers crossed just seeing this mini installation of poles go live will give me some hope.

Unfortunately they still have a mile or so to get anywhere near me though.

I have noticed a few more OR roadworks notifications over the past couple of months - not in my direction though.

I may go and look in these areas and see if any other poles are getting FTTP equipment added and if any of them are active.

Normal FTTP rollout can be slow too. Our poles had fibre on them for 6 months before they went active.