FTTP roll out - multiple providers clarification

Hi. Can anyone offer advice on the following. Part of my village (Brockenhurst in Hampshire) has had FTTP rolled out by Openreach under a community grant. Other areas in the village not covered by the OR roll-out, are now being offered to sign up for FTTP by 2 suppliers (Wessex Internet and Tooli) who I understand will install their own fibre infrastructure. Does this mean that both of these providers will lay their own fibre in different underground ducting (i.e. “double digging”) even if they are both covering the same street/area?

Short answer yes and WI are getting government funds via Project gigabit ........ I thought WI was doing one or two roads, but it seems to be most of the East side of Brock

Edited by Taras (Wed 24-Jan-24 21:37:03)

If there are Openreach ducts or poles already present, they will likely re-use those, assuming there is enough free space for them both to pull their own cables through.

Most altnets don't dig their own ducts these days - it's too expensive.

Wessex internet is doing some wacky things though (like their fttp and wireless offerings being on the same post codes). Enough for me not to want them down my lane. And one of the alts that i expect to be gobbled up by a bigger company. Also inflating the number of premises in a road, is a big warning shot for me.

Also one of the requirements of the project gigabit awards is to have a wholesale side, WI claims to have, they have a page on their website...... it looks empty .

Thanks for replies. Some additional info - a large part of the west side of the village is covered by the FTTP roll-out done by OR over past year as part of a community scheme. WI hosted an open information meeting for village residents last night and detailed their plans to roll-out FTTP to other parts of village not covered by the OR infrastructure and explained that they are obliged to open up their fibre for wholesale use at some "later" date. They have begun to lay underground ducting as part of their rollout. I didn't get the impression they are overstating their intended coverage, and their website is clear that their (lower speed) wireless offering is for those areas they cannot reach with fibre. Trooli is offering FTTP packages via their website for same postcodes as WI but I don't know yet how or when they are providing their infrastructure.