Vodafone CityFibre roll-out is very different to the CityFibre business

Gigafast means a fibre pot/manifold at edge of your property ready for connecting, CityFIbre business means within 250m or so of your property

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I'll wander over today and take a look. At least one has vent holes and the other looks the same.

Both "wings" in all these cases near me are unvented copper extensions.

This is an aside but they may not be unvented. I�ll need to check tomorrow.

But all new cabinets are vented, you just can�t see the vents from outside, but it�s achieved by the cabinet being double shelled. The top �shell� overlaps the bottom shell slightly at the bottom. The bottom shell (inside) has holes in it. So looking from inside the cabinet you can see daylight.

I would imagine an extension is the same. But I could well be wrong.

I�m in a copper extension now. They�re definitely vented!

I am going to speculate.

The border of the coverage runs along my road, I thought it meant my road was done, I expect it means the side streets on that side of the line are done but not my road itself, the nearest side street to me is easily within 250m, so that may explain exactly what you have just told me, I assume cityfibre business are ok with it as they can probably get business customers to pay the extra to cover that last bit of distance, whilst vodafone currently have free install for FTTP so a different business model.

I have done what I can which is register my interest, and if I am lucky vodafone will decide to deploy it, I estimate the distance at about 40-80m. (assuming they didnt go past the last front door, street is only about 20-30m).

On the flip side it may make VM a good service now, as lots of streets near me have top end speed FTTP competition to take customers away from VM and lower docsis utilisation levels.

Edited by Chrysalis (Fri 28-Dec-18 15:53:31)

I think I got confused, my belief openreach were doing my City was from a post you made on kitz saying its in the list for "by 2024", did you mean cityfibre?

I searched openreach news announcements, and the only single one Leicester is mentioned, and it mentions my exchange specifically sadly is a g.fast specific announcement. I expect from openreach it will be g.fast and why would they deploy g.fast if they doing FTTP, which probably means no FTTP at all or at least for a decade or so.

So this leaves cityfibre hoping they are willing to do some work to extend the reach from the side street to my property.

The cabinet coverage I am right on the edge, I can see the next cabinet across the road from me, and I am 365m at the edge, so I suppose from an openreach point of view g.fast from the cabinet may well give reasonable speeds to a good % of those of those on the cabinet, but I am probably placed in the worst location possible, the next house down the road is on the other cabinet at a 60m copper distance (there is a gap to next house as is park and a business in between).

Interestingly the other city exchange is not on the g.fast list, that other exchange covers about 80% of the cityfibre coverage, Which makes me think that may get openreach FTTP. MY exchange covers most of the other 20%.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 31-Dec-18 12:03:17)

Predicting who will and who won't get Openreach FTTP is as reliable as the trains into London Victoria today

Nothing in the Gfast roll-out precludes an exchange from having a mixed technology delivery

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I think I got confused, my belief openreach were doing my City was from a post you made on kitz saying its in the list for "by 2024", did you mean cityfibre?

Yes. The distance between you and their existing ring in Leicester is really not a problem. That ring is just a base for collecting traffic together, they are building multiple kilometres of duct length from that existing infrastructure.

Chrysalis

From Cardiff experience, the fact that an exchange has G-Fast coverage does NOT mean no FTTP. We have several exchanges that G-Fast is live in and FTTP is / has already been installed in. Quite a few areas have both installed ( not yet live FTTP), I check the checker regularly for a selection of areas but as of today the FTTP is not yet live. ( All show FTTP-OD at 1000/220 which has changed from 330/30 in the last 3 weeks)

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I�m in a copper extension now. They�re definitely vented!

You should buy / rent a house, mate.