The Openreach vans were back at the end of the street on Monday and have been at other locations around the village the last few weeks. I have tried looking at https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/... for a few addresses round the village and all show that FTTP is NOT currently available. Is that normal? Are there any better sources of data to see how the rollout is going? https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/index.php?tab=... doesn't have anything for Fauldhouse. Does that show where FTTP is available to order, or where FTTP has been installed?

Thanks,
Paul

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The Openreach vans were back at the end of the street on Monday and have been at other locations around the village the last few weeks. I have tried looking at https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/... for a few addresses round the village and all show that FTTP is NOT currently available. Is that normal?

Yes that's normal: it's ready when it's ready. There's auditing to be done, and there's additional work at the exchange, which can take weeks or months. There may be problems with the upstream fibre path that may take time to resolve. Sometimes, fibre rollouts are abandoned without going live at all, due to unforeseen problems.

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In reply to a post by ceepan:

The Openreach vans were back at the end of the street on Monday and have been at other locations around the village the last few weeks. I have tried looking at https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/... for a few addresses round the village and all show that FTTP is NOT currently available. Is that normal?

Yes that's normal: it's ready when it's ready. There's auditing to be done, and there's additional work at the exchange, which can take weeks or months. There may be problems with the upstream fibre path that may take time to resolve. Sometimes, fibre rollouts are abandoned without going live at all, due to unforeseen problems.

Thanks for the information. I realise that there is no exact timescales on this, but was just wondering if there was a general rule on it. I had a a look at http://streetworks.org.uk/live-traffic-works-map/ and there are further works shown there in the next month (using the 3 months view it show works on or about the 19th May). There is nothing further out than that. I wasn't sure if that meant that they hadn't worked out all work required or if they only have to give a certain amount of notice that they intend to carry out work.

Cheers,
Paul

speak to openreach CEO. I live not that far from you and reached out to openreach CEO email who put me in touch with the project manager for this are and discovered my area in west lothian is due to be rolled out to by late 2021/early 2022.

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Yeah, that's what I did. They've been brilliant and keeping me up to date with the rollout here.

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speak to openreach CEO. I live not that far from you and reached out to openreach CEO email who put me in touch with the project manager for this are and discovered my area in west lothian is due to be rolled out to by late 2021/early 2022.

Where did you get the contact details? Are they available on the Openreach website?

Cheers,
Paul

In reply to a post by ceepan:

In reply to a post by wifigeek:

speak to openreach CEO. I live not that far from you and reached out to openreach CEO email who put me in touch with the project manager for this are and discovered my area in west lothian is due to be rolled out to by late 2021/early 2022.

Where did you get the contact details? Are they available on the Openreach website?

Cheers,
Paul

Lots of threads on this Forum where the details are given or you can look it up using this website.

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In reply to a post by ceepan:

In reply to a post by wifigeek:

speak to openreach CEO. I live not that far from you and reached out to openreach CEO email who put me in touch with the project manager for this are and discovered my area in west lothian is due to be rolled out to by late 2021/early 2022.

Where did you get the contact details? Are they available on the Openreach website?

Cheers,
Paul

Lots of threads on this Forum where the details are given or you can look it up using this website.

Thanks for that. I'll send an email to see if he can provided some further details.

Cheers,
Paul

I have been in contact with Openreach for the last few months. The build should have been completed by the end of September 2021, but for an unexplained reason a contractor failed to do this until a couple of weeks ago. They then completed the build on Friday. Openreach have said that it has been passed to the commissioning team and that I should be able to place an order by the end of this week.

What is involved in the commissioning? Should I expect to see much activity and engineers on site, or as it is build complete is the commissioning remote testing?

Thanks,
Paul

You're unlikely to see anything. This will be connecting up the fibre at the head-end exchange, adding the new OLT port into their provisioning systems, and updating the availability database.