Unexpected installs of FTTP in Snainton, North Yorkshire

Out of the blue, some folks in our village are getting FTTP when I didn't think anything was going to be happening for years. (Exchange MYSNN)

It does look like they are limited to a a particular area of our (very short) High Street - and maybe just from poles overhead from what I've seen so far and the people who've chanced upon getting it installed.

Do we think this is a sign of a bigger rollout to come - or does it not mean anything at all?



Any insights appreciated.

Cheers

May not be Openreach. Could be another network. There are some 100 such alternative FTTP network providers, installing all around the country.

Some are very local / regional. Others like CityFibre are installing all over.

Then again it could be Openreach. You need to either have a further dig around (online or in person) to see who's installing or get some photos of the install to give a clue or two.

Yep it’s Openreach. A postcode and house number checks out for the availability in that area of the village. We don’t have any other presence in this area due to our location and small size apart from a few rural wireless ISPs.

Just wondered if this is any indication of a larger roll-out or best not to get ahead of myself!

Unlikely but possible that someone has paid for FTTPoD which then allows other users in the immediate vicinity to contract at the standard terms.

In reply to a post by phil_w73:

Yep it’s Openreach. A postcode and house number checks out for the availability in that area of the village. We don’t have any other presence in this area due to our location and small size apart from a few rural wireless ISPs.

Just wondered if this is any indication of a larger roll-out or best not to get ahead of myself!

have a look on openreach's website and btwholesale. It should give a broader indication - also check the roadworks site inc tbb's roadwork map layer. Finally check TBB's project gigabit layers

They may have paused the build after doing certain postcodes in the village, for whatever reason. It happens unfortunately.

Best to keep reasonably low expectations and be pleasantly surprised when they return in due course.

Not sure if this would apply anymore, but we got FTTP to half the village under a BDUK contract.
The initial contract was for FTTC to the village, and it was lauded on the council website as bringing 'superfast' to our village, reality was halfway through the village the speeds dropped below 'superfast'. As there was such a large uptake of FTTC across the county Openreach had to pay back some of the monies, this was used to upgrade the secondhalf of village to FTTP, those houses who initially got 'superfast' are still on FTTC and no option of FTTP despite the fact that the fibre was routed past their houses!

I've done some digging and that does seem to be the case. A business on the high street has paid the nasty uplift for the first FTTP and 3 residential properties nearby have accidentally (not being any the wiser, just assumed everyone can get it) had FTTP installs since from overhead lines.

In reply to a post by phil_w73:

I've done some digging and that does seem to be the case. A business on the high street has paid the nasty uplift for the first FTTP and 3 residential properties nearby have accidentally (not being any the wiser, just assumed everyone can get it) had FTTP installs since from overhead lines.

Almost forgot, in amongst the houses which can only get FTTC there is one pole which has fibre due to FTTPoD, this has 2 or 3 other houses who have happily got FTTP from that pole.

There were a couple of streets on the Eastern edge of the village and more premises on the high street when I had a look, I wasn’t counting exactly but something like 50 properties had native Openreach FTTP available.

The fibre would run back to the exchange at Scarborough which is the handover exchange for the village (amongst others).