CFP question

I have a question about a CFP. Someone is looking into it for the estate my mother lives on. The cabinet is at the entrance to the estate Normally she should get something like 70/15 but there is a fault on the line limiting it to 38/4 and Openreach are insisting they have to come inside to investigate so that's out the question at the moment.

However is there any point in me expressing an interest for her given the "normal" speeds she can get? I would imagine that the far end of the estate gets awful speeds, and if she could get full fibre I would probably upgrade her. However it strikes me that it would be pointless to register an interest given the speed she can get.

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

I have a question about a CFP. Someone is looking into it for the estate my mother lives on. The cabinet is at the entrance to the estate Normally she should get something like 70/15 but there is a fault on the line limiting it to 38/4 and Openreach are insisting they have to come inside to investigate so that's out the question at the moment.

However is there any point in me expressing an interest for her given the "normal" speeds she can get? I would imagine that the far end of the estate gets awful speeds, and if she could get full fibre I would probably upgrade her. However it strikes me that it would be pointless to register an interest given the speed she can get.

You say that if FTTP were available, you'd take it (presumably for reliability / future-proofing). Therefore you're interested. Expressing an interest doesn't commit you to anything, and if a lot of interest is shown, there's a chance that OR would turn this into a "demand-led" scheme - so the CFP organiser may appreciate this.

However it also sounds like if you were required to make any more than a token financial contribution, you wouldn't be willing to (as the benefit is small). You can be up front with the CFP organiser about that too. I expect quite a few people fall into that category.

let me give you a view on how this will likely to play out - if the estate is say 30 or 150 or however many it is and they all get over 30 m/bs its is pretty likely that you will get a cost for doing the whole estate. Openreach is not going provide a few premises for FTTP if it could do the complete estate for the relatively similar build cost (the primary cost is from Headend to aggregation node to splitters (if the estate is ducted that the least of the problems and normally the cheapest - think you need to see what the appetite is in the estate for doing this

The estate has two bits. The original bit built in the late 1960's. Then a newer bit built late 1970's early 1980's from memory. It was not there when I where a lad. Most of the original estate gets decent speeds and it is all direct buried and fed from telegraph poles. Apparently the developer was very naughty as it was supposed to be ducted, or at least that what my mother tells me and she brought the house from new. That's Leech for you, but I think most developers are cheap skates to this day.

The newer bit of the estate must be all ducted because there are no telegraph poles. Exactly how the cables get from the entrance to the estate to the new bit I don't know.

At a guestimate the estate is ~350-400 houses, with two thirds being the original bit. With half the estate getting better than 70Mbps.

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

it is all direct buried and fed from telegraph poles.

That sounds an expensive CFP if thats the case.

agreed

also id be worried about the newer part as well as that does not sound great also migth be part duct . part buried

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

agreed

also id be worried about the newer part as well as that does not sound great also migth be part duct . part buried

True

I would still register my interest as the OP's mum has nothing to lose and can walk away if the CFP quote is too high.

The newer bit is 1980's (on checking) and almost certainly ducted. I did a count and there are 301 properties on the estate with a couple more being built (right now) on some land between the old and new bit which I imagine back in the day was considered too steep to build on (still is if you ask me).

I wonder if they are getting FTTP whether that could be taken into account. If they are hauling fibre to them then might as well do the ducted bit of the estate at a minimum.

Though I suspect that's way to much imaginative thinking for Openreach.

the new build if that is being done with that a developer is nothing to do with the exisitng nor will it being considered. thats the equivalent of your ordering your driving to be paved and all your neighbours expecting to be done free because that would be imaginaitive

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

the new build if that is being done with that a developer is nothing to do with the exisitng nor will it being considered. thats the equivalent of your ordering your driving to be paved and all your neighbours expecting to be done free because that would be imaginaitive

That's a false equivalent. If you are doing a pile of work to get fibre to the two new builds on "vacant" land on the housing estate then the additional cost of installing extra fibres to cover the area of the estate further down that gets poor broadband and consequently likely to have a high uptake of FTTP is significantly less than if you have to come back and do it all again separately for the CFP.

In short installing two fibres is not twice the cost of installing one, and if you think it is then you are on the crack pipe.

Anyone who does not understand that is part of the problem in achieving the maximum roll out of FTTP for the minimum cost in the UK.