Fibre to pole query

About a year ago, BT laid a new cable to our small estat, which we ere told was for fiber They then installed some at the top of each telegraph pole. I'm in the process of changing ISPs, but cannot find one offering FTTP. how can I find out the significance of these new installations, and any timeline involved.

some links

openreach's address checker

OpenReach's exchange map of when and where

And also if you can actually order

this is separate to the Open reach website and many isps use an enhanced version of this

Just put my address into the where and when and it said they will be building " in the future". I have had fttp for more than three years now so the checker " might not be accurate".....
The availability checker shows up to 1000 fttp available, I have 500, and it also shows standard BB available up to 24, 3 maybe used to be available on a good day, and the last column showed fibre BB of 0.1 - 1 Mbps is also available????!!!!!!!!!!!

In reply to a post by threelegs:

Just put my address into the where and when and it said they will be building " in the future". I have had fttp for more than three years now so the checker " might not be accurate".....

As the when and where says on the page, it may not show smaller fttp installs or bduk stuff prior to project gigabit. The OR W&W checker is useful as a general guide. Hence why i have multiple checkers as they show different things.

but if the where and when checker is showing out of date info how can it be trusted??

customers might look at the checker and think "oh no fttp for two years+ lets get starlink instead" then next week OR fit all the hardware for fttp...

PS my BT phone number doesnt show on the bottom checker either....

Edited by threelegs (Tue 11-Apr-23 15:59:22)

In reply to a post by threelegs:

but if the where and when checker is showing out of date info how can it be trusted??

The day its produced its out of date. Any rolling program would be. Also a project of OR's network size will have issues with data accuracy .

OR says this on their website

Some of our fibre build is not organised into these exchange areas, and so even if we don’t have major plans for an area, we may still be building fibre for some customers. For example we connect new housing developments to fibre all the time and right across the UK. And when we work with governments or local communities to co-fund roll-out of ultrafast full fibre networks this is often at a smaller scale than a full exchange area. We don’t publish details of these smaller build programmes on the map but you may see our teams working in the area.

In reply to a post by threelegs:

customers might look at the checker and think "oh no fttp for two years+ lets get starlink instead" then next week OR fit all the hardware for fttp...

You can't deploy a fibre network for 32 users in a week - unless its sitting on an aggregation point and you have overhead poles. And even that would take more than a week. Deploying Star link in a week might just be doable though.

Whilst i get your argument, there are several ways to find out what is going on.

In reply to a post by threelegs:

PS my BT phone number doesnt show on the bottom checker either....

then tell OR. If its with sky then it won't show just like with other llu providers