FTTP for Christmas

Been following the Openreach rollout of FTTP here in Bo'ness. We have 2 new build phases being developed beside me and the first few homes are now occupied. The new builds have Virgin coax and Openreach FTTP as standard. There is also another new build development across town as well which is due to have FTTP backfilled as they only have ADSL.

Openreach have now gone back round the rest of the older homes beside me to add FTTP. Install took a couple of weeks with light levels were being checked last Monday.

Yesterday FTTP on demand went from 330/30 to 1000/220. Today native FTTP is now orderable, didn't expect that to change on Christmas day.

You must have been a good boy for Christmas

Crarcher
Well have you ordered yet? you could have it working for the new year? what better way to start 2020.

The search is on. Just wish there were a few more providers to choose from.

My fibre was only being pulled into the street on the 13th, and was orderable yesterday.
They are not hanging around it seems

In reply to a post by crarcher:

The search is on. Just wish there were a few more providers to choose from.

It's only a matter of time before all the main contenders offer FTTP over openreach fibre, your choice is if to go with what's on offer right now or wait for a while. TalkTalk and Sky should be onboard within a few months.

crarcher

As you are associated with a FTTP only area that most of the big ISPs will serve, you may just have to phone and ask especially if you want to stay with the same supplier.

Many of them only seem to deal with FTTP on the phone rather than the web.

If you e-mail Andrew your post code it will help him keep on top of the FTTP rollout

Pete

Once they have an area live the subsequent rollout seems to be going really fast except where they hit individual problems.

The same happened with FTTC cabs once they got going, they were either very fast or moved to the back of the queue if they hit an issue.

Let Andrew know your post code as it helps him keep up to date on the rollout

Have a good New Year

Well it took that 4 years from installing our FTTC cabinet to the service going live so this was a bit of a pleseant surprise.

First evidence I saw of any work here was around 6th December. Cables were still being pulled around 11/12th and light tests on 16th/17th. There ware 2 ducts blocked that needed work done aarently but it doesn't seem to have delayed anything.