Any Trooli FTTP feedback?

Does anyone have any feedback on Trooli fibre who are rolling out in Kent?
They are about to go live in Hawkinge with FTTP and was thinking about signing up.

At the same time that Trooli showed up to lay their own fibre Openreach also arrived and started laying fibre. Who knew fibre networks would be like buses
I guess that's Openreach trying to protect their customer base as I'm sure Hawkinge wasn't on any roll out plan.

This means I will have lots of choice but I feel inclined to support the smaller local company who are putting their own network in and price seems competitive but with higher upload speeds.

That could be expensive if you find it not good or more costly than other providers in a few years, or a prospective buyer ducks out or wants a substantial price reduction on finding they cannot "move house" keeping their current provider.

Unless Trooli are open to all ISPs.

or that openreach fulling is contractual obligations under BDUk Kent prorgamme - fibre build don't just happen they take months and months of planning and don't just happen on the spur of the moment - checkbroadband for kent to see if that is the build that openreach is doing - https://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/broadb...

Thanks. Just really concerned about the next 18 months of a contract though. 18 months would be a long time to put up with a problematic service, not that I've any reason to think there'd be a problem.
After that I could move to a BT based FTTP product if necessary.

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

or that openreach fulling is contractual obligations under BDUk Kent prorgamme - fibre build don't just happen they take months and months of planning and don't just happen on the spur of the moment

I imagine Trooli would have applied for access to BT's infrastructure many months ago as well so plenty of time for Openreach to plan a roll out.
Could be a coincidence though.

Thanks for the link. I tried it but it's a bit unclear whether the faster broadband it talks about is the FTTC we already have which I believe was BDUK or the latest FTTP rollout. It doesn't actually mention a technology.

In reply to a post by gmoorc:

Thanks. Just really concerned about the next 18 months of a contract though. 18 months would be a long time to put up with a problematic service, not that I've any reason to think there'd be a problem.
After that I could move to a BT based FTTP product if necessary.

Only if Openreach overbuild the Trooli network which they might not. The Trooli website gives very few details about how their service would work which is not a good sign.

However, whether the OP *takes* the Trooli service or not won't make a difference to whether Openreach makes their FTTP service available there or not. In other words, they won't skip individual houses just because they have active Trooli connections (even if they could tell).

If the work is all underground and independent though, a "migration" will be similar to moving to Openreach from Virgin Media. Far more involved than mucking about with settings at a computer or two somewhere in the bowels of BT Group.

Indeed, it'll be two separate services on two separate fibres. The OP could even have both active at once for redundancy.

"That could be expensive if you find it not good or more costly than other providers in a few years, or a prospective buyer ducks out or wants a substantial price reduction on finding they cannot "move house" keeping their current provider" doesn't seem to make any sense.

That doesn't seem to make any sense. Whether or not Openreach FTTP is available at the property, is independent of whether the OP decides to take the Trooli service or not. Sure, the install time might be a few weeks if the ONT isn't already on the wall. That's not going to be a deal-breaker for someone buying the house. In fact, having a choice of two independent FTTP networks sounds like a big bonus.

Don't forget I said a house move and keeping their existing contract with their existing supplier. There could be various install costs from Openreach and/or BTW instead of a probable free move.

And the complication you mention of wait times and perhaps needing to use mobile broadband for a while. FTTP is not as simple as xDSL on a move if it isn't already at the premises.