Project Gigabit Scope Query

Is it possible for me to tell (or infer) from the OMR data whether or not I am in scope for the local authority Project Gigabit funded fibre rollout ? If not, is that information available from anywhere else ? In my case this is for Lot 29 / CityFibre.

Reason for asking is that after a decade of struggling to maintain a decent internet connection of any kind here, I think the time has come to admit defeat and move house if there is no prospect of fibre being deployed here.

Thanks.

https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/index.php?tab=...

find your property on the map and see if its covered by yellow

It is, i.e. gigabit white.

If that’s sufficient to be included, thanks and all good. What made me doubt that would be the case is that the contract is for ca. 50,000 properties, so 6% of the total for the county. That would mean commercial rollouts would have to hit close to 94% (less some for the voucher schemes that have already happened), and that seemed a bit of a stretch based on what I’ve read up to this point.

Worth saying fella that you can be considered in scope after the OMR but when they come round to do the street surveys they can decide to exclude your property or postcode so until they have done the work to enable your postcode nothing is guaranteed.

In reply to a post by AdamF2000:

It is, i.e. gigabit white.

If that’s sufficient to be included, thanks and all good. What made me doubt that would be the case is that the contract is for ca. 50,000 properties, so 6% of the total for the county. That would mean commercial rollouts would have to hit close to 94% (less some for the voucher schemes that have already happened), and that seemed a bit of a stretch based on what I’ve read up to this point.

There are some properties (in general) that are gigabit white and are deemed to be too expensive. This may expand if the government does slash the PG funding.

Thanks, understood. Of the 19 properties in my postcode, 18 got fibre from Openreach a while ago under a voucher scheme. My place was excluded because weirdly it is connected to a different exchange to the other 18 and therefore wasn’t in the contract scope. Would be more than a little frustrating if I’m excluded again next time round on the grounds of cost, but not a lot I can do other than up sticks and move.

In reply to a post by AdamF2000:

My place was excluded because weirdly it is connected to a different exchange to the other 18 and therefore wasn’t in the contract scope.

that shouldn't have mattered but i've seen rollout done by post code. so like ab and ac (9 and 10 house numbers) on a main road, and both ab and ac are on their post code boundaries.

if your road has been done and yours hasn't - which you are suggesting, i'd be checky and use the OR form and select "my neighbour can get fttp but i can't" and see what happens

The fact that all your postcode has a gigabit service apart from you will go against you fella as they will only be looking at doing your property so the usual spreading of infrastructure costs across all properties (in your case 19) won't happen so it could become expensive for them to do.

The fact that your property was connected to a different local exchange than the others in your postcode should not have mattered as the fibre infrastructure in many many cases doesn't come from the local exchange anyway.

In reply to a post by Taras:

i'd be checky and use the OR form and select "my neighbour can get fttp but i can't" and see what happens

Good idea

Thanks I’ll give it a go. One avenue I haven’t tried so far.

My postcode is a long narrow one along a country lane and I’m just over the border into the area served by another exchange. But the neighbour on my side of the road a couple of hundred yards along does have fibre.

I did try a FTTPoD quote but that came back > £100K.

Understood, and that’s my concern. I did try to challenge all this at the time but got nowhere.

That said the house directly opposite me and a scattering of others around it are in a different postcode and none of those got fibre - so if they get it the fibre will pass my front gate.

Edited by AdamF2000 (Mon 10-Feb-25 16:44:53)

In reply to a post by AdamF2000:

Thanks I’ll give it a go. One avenue I haven’t tried so far.

My postcode is a long narrow one along a country lane and I’m just over the border into the area served by another exchange. But the neighbour on my side of the road a couple of hundred yards along does have fibre.

I did try a FTTPoD quote but that came back > £100K.

right forget your neighbours at this time. Are you served overhead or underground?

In reply to a post by AdamF2000:

That said the house directly opposite me and a scattering of others around it are in a different postcode and none of those got fibre - so if they get it the fibre will pass my front gate.

That should work in your favour and bring the cost of delivery to your property down which is a good thing.

In reply to a post by Taras:

In reply to a post by AdamF2000:

Thanks I’ll give it a go. One avenue I haven’t tried so far.

My postcode is a long narrow one along a country lane and I’m just over the border into the area served by another exchange. But the neighbour on my side of the road a couple of hundred yards along does have fibre.

I did try a FTTPoD quote but that came back > £100K.

right forget your neighbours at this time. Are you served overhead or underground?

Overhead. If it’s in any way relevant, I’m set a little way back from the road so have two Openreach poles in my front garden fed from the pole right outside the house opposite iirc

how many poles from the main road is the nearest cbt?

https://www.reddit.com/r/brighton/comments/1bp1up8/f...

cbt

In reply to a post by Taras:

how many poles from the main road is the nearest cbt?

https://www.reddit.com/r/brighton/comments/1bp1up8/f...

cbt

That I don’t know. As soon as I get a chance I’ll wander down there and take a look.

In reply to a post by Taras:

how many poles from the main road is the nearest cbt?

https://www.reddit.com/r/brighton/comments/1bp1up8/f...

cbt

Not able to find anything resembling the CBT in the picture, but I can see what I think are CBTs with grey rain covers and cables coming out of the bottom.

Counting the pole in the street that I’m fed from as #1 and walking towards the village, the first house I come to that I know can order fibre is fed from pole #10. I don’t think it has a CBT and nor does #11, but both poles are so deep in greenery it’s hard to be 100% sure. Pole #12 definitely has a CBT.

There’s a gap between poles #9 and #10 with no cabling between which I think is where the boundary is between the exchange I’m connected to and the one that serves the rest of the village, the latter being the one that got the voucher funded rollout from Openreach.