My official update this week is that the cabling team are on the ground and once complete will be passed to jointers.

The unofficial update from talking to engineers o the ground is that all ducts have been roped apart from a couple at the top where they hope to 'overblow'. I believe this is close to the exchange. I'm really pleased to have got the country lane ducts roped as these were the ones I was concerned about being blocked as may not have been accessed for years.

I did ask with a cheeky grin if I might have it by the time Santa arrives, this was met with a look to senior installer, and an 'ooof' so probably not but it might be. So I suspect not. Was away later part of week so haven't seen if the fibre is in the ground or just the ropes, but they have been trolling round with a trailer with fibre drum on it. Will have a look at the weekend.

From digging through posts I need the following:
Cabling Team
Jointing Team
Whoever installs the CBT/DP thing in the ground box outside
Whoever connects the far end
1-visit to install from ground box through 150m of duct to inside box (on the hope that I get a 1-visit install).

Update on my order.

Ducting from the the distribution point to my property has been complete.
Cablers detected 2 blockages in ducts. One has been resolved and the 2nd hopefully was resolved yesterday.
All being well, cablers can return to site next week. Doesn't look likely for a pre-Xmas install but shouldn't be long afterwards.

In reply to a post by 1nfern0:

Update on my order.

Ducting from the the distribution point to my property has been complete.
Cablers detected 2 blockages in ducts. One has been resolved and the 2nd hopefully was resolved yesterday.
All being well, cablers can return to site next week. Doesn't look likely for a pre-Xmas install but shouldn't be long afterwards.

Awesome, getting the ducts free and clear is probably the last big unknown delay. After that should be just be business as usual. Of course there are still a few stages, and Openreach scheduling to wait for but to me seems the last unknown barrier for the process.

Further update to my order, although no progress really. Still stuck on waiting for civils (Morrisons Utiltiies?) to do their job.

"Escalation has been made to the Civils supplier for an update to build a new cable chamber box.

Once completed underground can go to site to complete short cable route."

It sounds like it's literally the main thing holding up the order from progressing, I'm curious to know what 'short cable route' means, but once I see civils in the area working on a cable chamber box then I'll probably get a rough idea . I guess holidays are getting in the way, so hopefully in January I'll see some progress.

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Further update to my order, although no progress really. Still stuck on waiting for civils (Morrisons Utiltiies?) to do their job.

"Escalation has been made to the Civils supplier for an update to build a new cable chamber box.

Once completed underground can go to site to complete short cable route."

It sounds like it's literally the main thing holding up the order from progressing, I'm curious to know what 'short cable route' means, but once I see civils in the area working on a cable chamber box then I'll probably get a rough idea . I guess holidays are getting in the way, so hopefully in January I'll see some progress.

I'd guess it means they have completed much of the cable route and only have a small part left.

My update is:
Underground allocator have advised majority of the route has all been cabled.
There is a 600 mtr section that requires a overblow. This is in hand and engineers will be assigned to deal with the overblow asap.

Hi THEMATT, Which area in Bedford are you in?
They are starting to role out G.Fast in many areas now also.

My update this week was word for word the same as last week. I guess that means no progress.

Yay, I can see on roadworks that works are planned and most likely in relation to my order. It's pretty much nearly outside my house, it's near to the pole that I'm connected to.

https://i.imgur.com/5OYqfjh.png

Planned between the January 10th to January 14th .

Survey happening right now...

Engineer has a very large area to survey (120+ premises) based off my survey request.

He also thinks that my install would be "incredibly simple" (his words!). The reasoning:
1. I currently get ~70/15 - means it's likely to be the cabinet around the corner
2. It's a new build (<4 years), this should have been noted on the desktop survey
3. The install location is a doddle and will reuse the path that my current one used (junction box etc. already there)

His report should go in at the back end of next week