FTTP 900m over pole supply

Our local area (Wirral) was upgraded to full fibre over 2 years ago. We live out in the fields with only our house and the neighbouring farm fed over a pole supply. The green cabinet is approx 900m away.

I know other premises fed from the same cabinet can now get FTTP and I can see the nodes mounted to the poles in that area.

We appear to have been bypassed and with it being 2 years and a big job to feed 2 houses I feel like we will be ignored until the copper network is removed in another couple of years and they are forced to upgrade us.

Attempting to get any contact from Openreach has proved futile and the few engineers we have had out recently (our copper is unreliable!) seem to think it's a lost cause.

Does anyone have any advise that could help me speed up the process? At the very least it would be nice to know i'll be getting done in 2027 and just stay quiet till then!

Frustrating thinking there may be something I could do to influence the situation in the meantime !

You could pay, and get FTTPoD ?

Or use Stairlink.

Or use a mobile sim enabled router.

And now the good news. The copper won't be removed in 2027, they'll just turn the phone service off leaving the internet unchanged (assuming you have it). "Land line" phone calls will continue to be available over the internet.

Sounds like it will be expensive to get FTTP there, just for two premises. Doesn't help you, but the context is that if they spent say £20K getting fibre to you, then from a pool of funds, that's possibly more than a dozen other premises that would miss out, that they could enable elsewhere for the same spend. Not saying they wont do it in time, but its difficult to justify on commercial grounds.

Are you 900m away from the FTTP infrastructure because there's 900m of your land to cover, or is it a public road?

It's 900m over a combination of probably 5 different people's farmland and then some distance on the public road at the end.

Oh and it crosses a Railway line at high level too for added complexity 😥

That's what i thought 😥

The railway will be the reason why it's not been upgraded. I don't think they'd string a cable above it any more, they'd have to directional drill underneath.

Five different peoples farmland certainly wont help either. There may be a variety of wayleaves and access consents involved -> in the too hard basket it goes.

There are an additional 14 houses just this side of the railway line (700m away from me across the fields), but I imagine this adds another ££££ to the price.

I've submitted a FTTPoD desktop quote request. I'll post the results on here so you can all have a good laugh 😄