Well, today they are pulling cables up our road between various chambers as I know the ducts are clear.

They do seem to be spending a lot of time in one of the main ones and seem to be splicing.

I’ve also noticed a lot more permits being granted for egging and duct clearing in nearby roads, one of which is from 6pm to 11am!

As someone else has said, all subbies in plain white vans and not marketing, or any hint of them installing in our post code on their website.

I’ve registered interest so we’ll see what happens!

We've seen a similar pattern in our local area but I wouldn't hold your breath. From what I've seen on the ground so far there seems to be the following phases -

1. Install head end cabs and aggregation cabs (month 1)
2. Pull backbone / attach pole equipment (half way up) (month 2,3)
3. Start to join up backbone, poles etc (month 4,5)
4. Snagging (month 4,5,6)
5. Light it up (month 6+)

As I understand it they don't do any local marketing until the fibre is due to be lit. At that point you should get a leaflet drop through specific houses that can receive the service. Round here you can have a road of houses but only pockets of specific houses coming off enabled poles will be able to get it hence it's not just a blast everyone approach.

I've also noticed the numbers of passed/enabled houses decreasing as the rollout progresses and they find issues with enabling them. Our local rollout has dropped from 244 to 161 properties.

Basically, until you have a lit service, nothing is guaranteed!

At least you have Virgin Media, where I am it is just FFTC.

Toob has my post code as "In Build" - has been for at least a year, still no sign of it being available or even of any work being done to get it installed.

In reply to a post by Squirrel:

At least you have Virgin Media, where I am it is just FFTC.

I could go back to Openreach FTTC/VDSL, but the upload speeds dropped to 2Mbps which wasn’t enough for my needs. I also have EE 4G running between 150 and 200 Mbps, which is possibly an option (although collapses in a power cut).

Toob has my post code as "In Build" - has been for at least a year, still no sign of it being available or even of any work being done to get it installed.

Sounds like my parents whom are waiting on CityFibre. Toob has started work in my town and there is fibre being run into Openreach ducts, but they are 5 miles from me, and may never get to my part.

I live in Seaford, East Sussex.
I'd noticed some Trooli vans around for a while so thought I'd register interest on their website.

A couple of weeks later I received a call to say that Trooli Fibre was now available on my street and would I like to sign up, I declined at the time thinking I would look at reviews and prices etc.

We have Plusnet FTTC and get around 73/18 Mbps so not bad at all but with my partner and I now working at home all the time and downloading software and moving large files it seemed a good idea to sign up with Trooli for the faster speeds.

Apart from a small amount of ducting just outside the property being blocked the install was very quick, in fact the whole process has been faultless taking a few weeks.
Speeds are great (we have the Business 500 package) and I can't fault them.

Glad to hear you're happy with the service. What sort of ping do you get out of interest?

No visible progress here on their rollout but various workmen clearing ducts and permits on various roads in the area. Interestingly, Openreach started running fibre through the ducts here a week or so ago - spoke to one of the engineers who said the job was under the council, so it may be related to the Mid Sussex fibre/coast to capital project... Funny that Trooli had done the duct checking and clearing and then Openreach swoop in and start laying their own! Just hoping that OR haven't filled up any remaining capacity in the ducts with their cabling (it did look quite cramped when I had a nose)...

Just thought i would check the bid and to see progress and although there are still some duct clearing works etc planned for the locality, it stated that Trooli is live.

Clicked on the link and put in my postcode etc and it is now available to order for my address aparently.

Currently showing a 10 week lead time from order.

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Glad to hear you're happy with the service. What sort of ping do you get out of interest?

No visible progress here on their rollout but various workmen clearing ducts and permits on various roads in the area. Interestingly, Openreach started running fibre through the ducts here a week or so ago - spoke to one of the engineers who said the job was under the council, so it may be related to the Mid Sussex fibre/coast to capital project... Funny that Trooli had done the duct checking and clearing and then Openreach swoop in and start laying their own! Just hoping that OR haven't filled up any remaining capacity in the ducts with their cabling (it did look quite cramped when I had a nose)...

Yes, heaven forbid that Openreach put Openreach cables into Openreach ducts

Could this be also why theres been installation of fibre down a lot of the main roads around Hassocks? There seems to be a lot of activity going on with Infinity Fibre group and its hard to work out what exactly they're doing or what timescale.

Yes, Trooli and Box Broadband are digging in that area.