Just a bit of an update on this then.

It appears that it is indeed a demand led cfp from openreach. It was open to >700 premises and according to an email I received from openreach after 9 people had signed up they were 6% of the way to target for the project.

This led me to believe they were hoping to raise £330k

We are currently sitting at 78 residential sign ups and 7 businesses, so we are a long way away from the target. Interestingly about 6 residential numbers were removed from the scheme a few weeks ago, I’m not sure why.

A few weeks ago I saw an advert on Facebook from openreach encouraging people to sign up as the scheme was closing on the 4th of May. Despite this it’s still possible to sign up on the openreach website.

On Friday evening I received an email from dcms asking me to validate a voucher, the voucher wasn’t for my name or address. I forwarded it on to my neighbour and also told openreach of the mistake. Today I got a new email and have validated the voucher for my address.

So openreach now have 12 months to use the voucher and to install fibre to my house, despite not having enough sign ups to the scheme. Is it likely they are proceeding with only partial funds raised? Or are they trying to prevent me from using my voucher with another competitor who may install fibre to the area?

In reply to a post by McShaneDCFC:

Just a bit of an update on this then.

It appears that it is indeed a demand led cfp from openreach. It was open to >700 premises and according to an email I received from openreach after 9 people had signed up they were 6% of the way to target for the project.

This led me to believe they were hoping to raise £330k

We are currently sitting at 78 residential sign ups and 7 businesses, so we are a long way away from the target. Interestingly about 6 residential numbers were removed from the scheme a few weeks ago, I’m not sure why.

A few weeks ago I saw an advert on Facebook from openreach encouraging people to sign up as the scheme was closing on the 4th of May. Despite this it’s still possible to sign up on the openreach website.

On Friday evening I received an email from dcms asking me to validate a voucher, the voucher wasn’t for my name or address. I forwarded it on to my neighbour and also told openreach of the mistake. Today I got a new email and have validated the voucher for my address.

So openreach now have 12 months to use the voucher and to install fibre to my house, despite not having enough sign ups to the scheme. Is it likely they are proceeding with only partial funds raised? Or are they trying to prevent me from using my voucher with another competitor who may install fibre to the area?

Hey - So OR will only ever proceed to the DCMS Stage if they want the project to continue / start, so they will validate all the vouchers, total it up and if they want to go ahead they will or won't depending on how much cash they raise from vouchers.

Maybe best to drop the community fibre team an email, but they can be quite slow! It's a good sign though that yours are getting validated!

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In reply to a post by McShaneDCFC:

Just a bit of an update on this then.

It appears that it is indeed a demand led cfp from openreach. It was open to >700 premises and according to an email I received from openreach after 9 people had signed up they were 6% of the way to target for the project.

This led me to believe they were hoping to raise £330k

We are currently sitting at 78 residential sign ups and 7 businesses, so we are a long way away from the target. Interestingly about 6 residential numbers were removed from the scheme a few weeks ago, I’m not sure why.

A few weeks ago I saw an advert on Facebook from openreach encouraging people to sign up as the scheme was closing on the 4th of May. Despite this it’s still possible to sign up on the openreach website.

On Friday evening I received an email from dcms asking me to validate a voucher, the voucher wasn’t for my name or address. I forwarded it on to my neighbour and also told openreach of the mistake. Today I got a new email and have validated the voucher for my address.

So openreach now have 12 months to use the voucher and to install fibre to my house, despite not having enough sign ups to the scheme. Is it likely they are proceeding with only partial funds raised? Or are they trying to prevent me from using my voucher with another competitor who may install fibre to the area?

Hey - So OR will only ever proceed to the DCMS Stage if they want the project to continue / start, so they will validate all the vouchers, total it up and if they want to go ahead they will or won't depending on how much cash they raise from vouchers.

Maybe best to drop the community fibre team an email, but they can be quite slow! It's a good sign though that yours are getting validated!

Thanks for this info, it seems a bit strange to me that they have proceeded to the validating vouchers stage without enough sign ups. According to the T’s and C’s of the scheme they have 12 months from voucher validation to provide me with a gigabit capable service. It seems they might be putting themselves under a bit of pressure if they are hoping for more sign ups. I don’t think anyone new has signed up in over a month.

I had heard on the grapevine though that fibrus will be installing here next year so that’s why I thought maybe OR are trying to make us commit our vouchers to them 😂

Or maybe OR are lowering their limits - but not broadcasting it.

BT has agreed various tax breaks with HMG linked to extra investment in Full Fibre so this could be a side effect. Or maybe they have moved your area to a planned install but realise they could get some funding to do so by leaving it as a community driven project ...

An update on this for anyone interested.

Over the past few months openreach announced that the village will be getting fttp, and that there will be a copper stop sell next year.

I was driving through yesterday and noticed a big spool of fibre cable left at the side of the road (black with yellow stripe).

Out of curiosity i went on to the openreach site and put my postcode in, selected my address and had a look to see if the availability had changed. It still read “we have no plans to upgrade your area”.

Decided I would stick i my brother in laws slightly different postcode and was surprised to see “we are starting to build in your area”. I checked a few more addresses on my post code and it turns out that every house in the street except mine and next door have the “we are starting to build in your area” message.

I’m slightly miffed at this saying as I had committed by voucher to the scheme last year and had been badgering businesses, people and politicians in the village trying to get them to pledge their vouchers too and to encourage others to do the same.

Is there any chance this could be a mistake? Or is there anyone I could contact to try and get onto the scheme?

For additional info, my particular street has about 22 houses or so in it. There are bt manholes every two houses or so which carry the phone wires. My house, and the house at the end of the street are served by the manhole outside my house. The house to the right of mine is served by a manhole 20m or so up the street. All the manholes are connected to each other. Maybe our one at the end has a blocked duct?

You might be at risk of over thinking it. Give them an opportunity to fully complete the rollout and keep an eye on the various checkers for updates.

Once the rollout is complete and ready for service the databases will be updated accordingly. Your address update may also flip at this point. Should it not, all is not lost (as there’s a good chance it may still be an addressing / database issue) which you can follow up with OR to resolve (or possibly escalate with senior management at OR to resolve).

But still early doors. Give it time.

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You might be at risk of over thinking it. Give them an opportunity to fully complete the rollout and keep an eye on the various checkers for updates.

Once the rollout is complete and ready for service the databases will be updated accordingly. Your address update may also flip at this point. Should it not, all is not lost (as there’s a good chance it may still be an addressing / database issue) which you can follow up with OR to resolve (or possibly escalate with senior management at OR to resolve).

But still early doors. Give it time.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

You might be at risk of over thinking it. Give them an opportunity to fully complete the rollout and keep an eye on the various checkers for updates.

Once the rollout is complete and ready for service the databases will be updated accordingly. Your address update may also flip at this point. Should it not, all is not lost (as there’s a good chance it may still be an addressing / database issue) which you can follow up with OR to resolve (or possibly escalate with senior management at OR to resolve).

But still early doors. Give it time.

Haha you are more than likely right that I’m over thinking it, just don’t want to miss out 😂 The day openreach start pulling fibre through our street I’ll be looking out the window to see what they are doing. 😝

Thanks!

Very exciting update today is that I can now order fttp 🥳 the whole area doesn’t seem to have it yet but I assume the different post codes will update soon for the whole village.

If the guys who update the availability maps are reading this the village of Dunloy now has fttp