In reply to a post by mrijones:

It can take quite a while for the installation process to be completed though, one of those Pole Mounted Fibre Splitters appeared on a pole a near my sister's house late December last year but no further progress has been made since then.

Similar thing here - new poles went in back in January, fibre run to the village was done not long after but nothing has happened since.

I would have thought that it would be fibre all the way. Laying fibre across a field is not that expensive. You just need a dugger to dig a trench.

Thanks for the link to the price list, interesting.
I think mole-ploughing is likely to be possible but the the road will have to be crossed at some point, his hedge got through and his garden crossed so no doubt as you say other charges will apply. I will eventually find out what he has been quoted. I paced out the distance this afternoon out of curiosity and my estimate was well out, somewhere between 150-200 metres.
No doubt if he does go ahead with the order it will take ages to come to completion.

Afternoon all!

Thanks for the replies.

No fibre manifolds yet but there do seem to be loops of black cable with a yellow stripe tied to the tops of every 2 or 3 existing poles. From the ground it looks to be about the diameter of a household electrical flex cable. Not sure if it is at all relevant, but they appeared earlier this year after an Openreach van was at the side of the road with engineers pulling blue rope and black/yellow ducting between manholes. Is it normal having poles and ducting side-by-side?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0165043,-3.7653355...

Anyway, the fields belong to our neighbour, and from his recollection, a trench was dug by BT when they moved in so as to supply a telephone line and our line was also fed through this when they were converting the barn into our house a few years later. Does this mean that the necessary ducting is already there and it would just be a question of feeding the fibre through it for a 100m or so?

Take a peek at looped fibre tubing in Cornwall probably you've got something like the pictures there and this is the tubing that contains smaller tubes down which the fibre is blown

If you have pre-existing ducting then this greatly improves your chances of being a standard install fee.

In reply to a post by Jax2:

I have FTTP on order, the run from the pole with the "bottle" on to my house is about 250 metres running over three further existing poles and also requires tree surgery (branch removal) on four or five trees but there is no extra charge over the standard charge.

I am surprised this comes within the normal install charge although BT do work in mysterious ways.

Well I am not going to argue with them on that score, just happy they are not going to charge any extra!

Sounds very like what what was done down my road, there were long gaps of several months between each stage though. The black tubing with yellow stripe sat in a coil on the poles for about eight months before they were properly attached and the fibre blown down the street. When they finally get round to connecting me up they will blow fibre from the nearest underground manifold to the black bottle on the top of my pole and then, using a thinner tube, to the CSP which will be attached to the outside of my house.
To my limited knowledge it sounds like the ducting you need is already in situ being used for your phone line. Just be prepared for a possible long frustrating wait. Even when everything was ready according to the engineer blowing and installing the fibre down the street it was a further two months before the system was tested and allowed to go live.

We've seen a few cases of ISPs coming back to customers quoting a few thousand excess construction fees, but when the person has then tried BT Consumer they swallow the charges.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

We've seen a few cases of ISPs coming back to customers quoting a few thousand excess construction fees, but when the person has then tried BT Consumer they swallow the charges.

Hmm.

That's even more odd. BT Consumer don't make much out of residential connections at all. Would take decades to make any money on a customer after eating a few k of install charges.