In reply to a post by pluralist:

What's your Three signal like?

SIM-only £10pm for six months then £20. Tethering allowed. I have had that for years now in my phone, and grab the latest deal following minimum term expiry.

Or 4G home broadband at £11:50 plus a TV, rising to £23. Or with a claimed better router at £13 then £26. I have the cheaper one at a previous offer price of £18. Again, that was an upgrade from the original I got a few years ago.

Three signal is pretty good, I use smarty on my phone which is free.
the home broadband from three is not avaiulable here, which is a bit strange since thier mobile signal is here, I get "We're on our way, We're busy expanding our network to connect more homes." when I put my postcode into their website.

I think tethering would be a pain in the neck.

Now broadband offers 12 months at a good price, I may just go with them for 12 months. We will see.

In reply to a post by choppersrock:

Can't wait to get off my ECI cab... finally 1gb symmetrical fttp coming q1 2022 thanks to Netomnia.

I got off an ECI cab, and it's continual banding that lasted for months on end, back in April thanks to an Openreach retro-build.

Having been expecting FTTP our small community in Scotland was dismayed to find the project cancelled (DSSB) for various reasons. We resorted to a Community Fibre Partnership and 37 of the 41 properties eligible pledged vouchers making it fully funded. It then took Openreach almost a full year to deliver but two weeks ago we got the message that orders could now be placed. We co-ordinated the ordering and over 30 were placed over the one weekend. Openreach engineers did a good job and 21 connections went live, many on Christmas Eve itself. Don't tell me that people don't want FTTP! I am expecting a 100% take up of those who pledged by early January. The missing 4 from those eligible don't have or need any broadband service for various reasons. The CFP is a slow process with poor communications from Openreach but the guys who do the actual work are very good and helpful. The connections are mainly overhead from poles with a few underground ducts. One property, way off road, needed over 800m of new overhead fibre. Full marks to the guys that put in a lot of effort getting people connected in time for Christmas.

That sounds like you checked the 5G availability. Not the 4G .

We recently got 5G, which works on my phone as long as I'm on the mast side of the house. Downstream over 500Mbps, but upstream dreadful. Between 2 and 5.

4G is fine, as per my sig, which is why I suggested it.

I live in an area which had an FTTP infill around 12 months ago. The take up has been poor even though the FTTC speeds are around 25-30Mbps.

A lot of people don't care how fast it is, as long as it is reliable and will only upgrade when their ISP suggest it to them or it is cheaper.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by adslmax:

I do want FTTP but with 80/20 FTTP (reason: no more DLM ever)

I don't know why you have such a problem with DLM, with FTTC it is far better than it was with ADSL, I don't have any problem with it and I am on a long line from the cabinet.

My FTTC was banded twice in the last 7 years with Plusnet but once resetted by an engineer after a fault was fixed and other one was remote resetted by Plusnet requested to Openreach. Was banded twice at 74Meg instead of 80Meg.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Any further news on the Openreach build in your area? Recall you had correspondence with them which you were quite excited about at the time.

Funny you say that, one of the "Infrastructure Solutions Executive Level Complaints Team" called me at 12:30 PM today to update me.

They emailed me a summary it says

Hello Ryan,

Thanks for taking the time to speak to me before, I really appreciate your time.

I just wanted to drop you a quick email to summarise our call. I would like to just start out by again offering my apologies you had to email Clive again about our Fibre plans.

Good News
I’ve checked with my colleagues your property and Number (a different road in the other end of town checking for someone else) Road is in our plans to be upgraded to full fibre broadband (Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) technology). FTTP will give you ultrafast speeds by providing a direct fibre connection between our exchange and your home. So this means once it’s up and running you’ll be to use multiple devices to work from home, stream TV or surf the web all with no drop in quality.

Over the course of the next few months we’ll be starting the work to survey your area and looking to start building in June 2022. When FTTP is ready to be ordered, we’ll update our website to reflect this. You will then just need to place an order with a Service Provider (SP) that sells FTTP products. A list of which SPs sell FTTP can also be found on our website.

If everything goes as planned and we don’t come across any glitches, FTTP could be available by September 2022.

Need Anything Else?
As agreed, I’ll now close things here, but if you need anything further relating to this or our plans for your area please contact me.

Finally, you’ll receive a survey following the closure of this case, it’s about how I’ve dealt with this for you.



All the best and take care,

Name
Infrastructure Solutions Executive Level Complaints Team
Openreach

In our conversation they also told me that spine and fibre works were being down by john henry group and that final installs for individual properties would consist of a first visit by a Kelly Networks engineer then a openreach engineer for the cable pull.

Let me know if you have any further questions, but it's all promising.

Edited by RR_The_IT_Guy (Wed 29-Dec-21 14:44:00)

I also got an email from Netomnia this morning at 10AM

Name (Netomnia)
29 Dec 2021, 10:03 GMT

Good morning,
Thank you for your recent contact with Netomnia.
Currently, our build within this area is still within the design stages. We will work to complete and finalize our design. When this has been done, our dedicated team will build the spine of the network within your area. When the spine has been built we can begin to offer a suggested go live date for your community as we are able to calculate the remaining timescale for the infrastructure build.
Please be advised these dates may not be available until the beginning to middle of next year, 2022.
As our build progresses we will keep the community informed by providing dates and having signage displayed in and around the community.
Please feel free to contact us over the coming months with any further questions or queries about our build, we will do our utmost to assist you.


Kind regards,
Name
Customer Account Manager

Sounds like you have a little ‘race’ now between OR and Netomnia as to who will be ready for service first. Place your bets 😎

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Sounds like you have a little ‘race’ now between OR and Netomnia as to who will be ready for service first. Place your bets 😎

I bet openreach, not only because I know when they are estimating but also because I have seen John Henry group running draw rope and seen that there is some road closures planned in the year.
I was told I'm getting one of the senior fibre teams for my patch or at least that's what the project manager has on the systems. (I think i met one of them on an FTTP deployment nearby as he said he was on my area soon.

They said some of the other part of st neots i enquired about is getting some of the newer guys
I will be keeping tracks of both parts of St Neots anyway as FTTP is definitely needed at one, sub 30Mbps connection on OR and gigabit Virgin (not that i would advise the person to even touch their coax) (they already have it and it's working on 120Mbps on their M100 however expensive for what it is).

I sure hope get the FTTP on or ahead of schedule as I won't be with virgin from May till i can get some FTTP in place I'll be with the cheapest one month 80/20 FTTC plan.

I personally would have prefered cityfibre over Netomnia but any symmetric FTTP provider is still awesome especially when i heard that Netomnia supports XGS PON and sells up to 10 gig.

I just hope that Netomnia are not digging roads and are using openreach PIA at least at last mile if nothing else as it will cause problems if they need to bring fibre down my drive, three houses shared blocked paved drive, the only way to me is via Virgin Media or openreach ducting.