I was checking on this site. My current exchange is EACOX, but I know the other one which serves houses a few streets over is EABRW

That makes sense an could explain it. My current exchange is EACOX, but there is another exchange that serves the houses a few streets over which is EABRW

In reply to a post by mjn1210:

That makes sense an could explain it. My current exchange is EACOX, but there is another exchange that serves the houses a few streets over which is EABRW

Based on those two exchanges its likely to be Openreach, either via a commercial rollout or via BDUK

In reply to a post by mjn1210:

The poles all now say Fiber Overhead

Altnet should have there name on the label. No name and it's odds on to be Openreach deployment

In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

Altnet should have there name on the label. No name and it's odds on to be Openreach deployment

Not necessarily. Mine is supplied by Quantum and it doesn't have any name on the boxes. We first got a card posted through the letter box in early February, saying they were installing. About a week later a new fibre cable was pulled into the village, using the same route (it was pulled past the FTTC cabinet!) that the OR FTTC takes from the next village (where the company were also installing FTTP) and then for a couple of weeks boxes and cables appeared on each pole. I went live in mid March. Pretty painless tbh. And no, nothing to do with OR at all.

mjn1210 might be better off exploring whether any Altnets are doing the work. After all, I'd looked at the OR site only a month earlier and that showed that there were no plans for FTTP in the area at all.

Edited by 69bertie (Thu 09-Sep-21 20:44:00)

I believe all PIA should be labelled on the cables and any attachments, but they may not visible from ground level. However PIA and the associated FTTP builds have become something of a free for all and shortcuts in safety and quality are commonplace.

I was talking about the 'fibre overhead' label on the pole should have the altnet name on it. As witchunt says, all the cables should also be labelled.

But as witchunt also says it is the wild west out there in PIA land.

Edited by FibreBubble (Fri 10-Sep-21 10:19:07)

as witchunt also say,s it is the wild west out there

100% agree

In reply to a post by mjn1210:

There recently was a team of guys pulling fiber between the BT poles in our area. I asked them what they were doing and it was in fact pulling the Fiber for FTTP. They were not OpenReach. The poles all now say Fiber Overhead and there is the extra box. The only thing is when I check my Exchange it still shows as FTTP not enabled.

So I guess my questions are:
1. How do I know when FTTP is available? And by whom?
2. Why would they put Fiber in the field before even enabling the exchange?

Thanks

<Pedant mode on>
... fiber is the American spelling and the British, Australian, NZ spelling is fibre. Whether we're talking breakfast cereal or small strands of glass with light pulses inside.
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<Pedant mode on>
... fiber is the American spelling and the British, Australian, NZ spelling is fibre. Whether we're talking breakfast cereal or small strands of glass with light pulses inside.
< pedant mode off >


Americanisms. It's gotten worse.