In reply to a post by witchunt:

The whole area is getting FTTP installed infrastructure installed.

I emailed eSussex broadband and they have replied and said those works are not related to my post code and it is not in the FTTP rollout plans.

Very unhelpfully they didn't explain what they were exactly doing either - I have emailed them back to ask.

@witchunt as you have access to the information please could you explain what is going on? My post code (one road along) is BN207TW. I would love to know some more details. Thanks!

I feel like the eSussex team are trained to reply only with the least information they can - and in fact I get the impression they checked my post code and saw nothing on the system so replied and said not in the plans rather than checking what those works were...

Edited by Spinstorm (Thu 19-Nov-20 16:02:35)

I don't want to come across negatively but if you have given your local BDUK team your postcode and they don't have your property in scope they will not start explaining what is going on in other streets in your area.

If your area is getting fttp like witchunt says then it may be part of an Openreach funded rollout and not BDUK. Witchunt does not post on this forum in an official capacity so you may be pushing it by asking for more info, I would grasp on to the facts that you have already been told.

Edit: Worth saying that since I have been on this forum I have not known witchunt to be wrong when it comes to things related to Openreach so try to be reassured.

Edited by deleted (Thu 19-Nov-20 16:54:42)

I've not looked any further but details in the original post clearly identify the PON build and scheme as part of the FTTP build.

Lightning Fibre are doing a lot of duct unblocking in Meads area of Eastbourne at the moment and CityFibre have started their build in Hampden Park area.

Openreach will need to get a shove on as there is only so much room in the ducts.

I have to ask the question of why is it so difficult to get an official answer?

How is it that BDUK don’t know what openreach are doing? Why does the openreach site not show it?

I mean for something that requires paperwork to dig up the road surely it should be an easy answer?

If it’s openreach then how will I know? Just keep checking online? For how long? It’s just a mess.

And if it is a small build then I assume that if I then asked for FTTPoD the cost to go one road over should be a lot less than the £18,000 I was quoted a year ago.

But then you ask yourself why would they be doing that work for such a small number of homes?!

I’d just love some clarification of what the plan is!

Edited by Spinstorm (Thu 19-Nov-20 19:56:47)

In reply to a post by Spinstorm:

I have to ask the question of why is it so difficult to get an official answer?

Probably because people then hold them to the answers they give. Plans change - sometimes even after equipment has been installed, based on funding and unexpected problems.

In reply to a post by Spinstorm:

And if it is a small build then I assume that if I then asked for FTTPoD the cost to go one road over should be a lot less than the £18,000 I was quoted a year ago.

Maybe, maybe not. The FTTP architecture doesn't daisy-chain AFAIK, so they likely still have to pull a fibre cable all the way back to the fibre aggregation node.

In reply to a post by witchunt:

the original post clearly identify the PON build and scheme as part of the FTTP build.

Yeah I noticed that, 11 new JB and 186m of duct seems a strange mix. The road in question already seems to be fed UG and I did spot some existing JF2's when I done a google of the avenue in question.

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by witchunt:

the original post clearly identify the PON build and scheme as part of the FTTP build.

Yeah I noticed that, 11 new JB and 186m of duct seems a strange mix. The road in question already seems to be fed UG and I did spot some existing JF2's when I done a google of the avenue in question.

I know you were replying to witchunt but can you explain what you mean here?

I don’t know what the JB are for. I don’t know how much space 11 of them has. And no idea what JF2 are? Why is this a strange mix? And how do these works lead to evidence of an FTTP build?

Edited by Spinstorm (Fri 20-Nov-20 00:04:07)

Joint boxes, usually spaced well apart on Openreach network - 11 in 186 metre distance sounds high.

One possibility is that the existing footway boxes are being rebuilt.

A couple of weeks after my FTTPoD went live, contractors came around (unannounced) and rebuilt my footway box. They did this without affecting any service, which was quite impressive.