Since Openreach started their UK rollout a fair few sub contractors and sub contractors of them have started up so there has to be more boots on the ground to do the Openreach fibre work.

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

interesting - my view is the exact opposite there is now a smaller pool of resources to do such bespoke work such as fod as the Openreach Machine is now totally focussed on delivering its 6m FTTP coverage by 2025/226 - what will be interesting in the nex few days when Q3 results are in is whethey they are ahead, on track or behind (or on track because they pulled forward easier later premises) in the drive to 6m by 2026

6.44M already passed in the latest KPIs at an average run rate of c.50k premises per week.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

6.44M already passed in the latest KPIs at an average run rate of c.50k premises per week.

Will be much happier when its the entire UK but they are making progress which is the most important thing.

And at the current rate, they won't get to 25m properties until March 2029. They are going to have to crank things up substantially to meet the Dec 2026 target.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

And at the current rate, they won't get to 25m properties until March 2029. They are going to have to crank things up substantially to meet the Dec 2026 target.

Maybe another one of your excellent spreadsheets is required so we can all have a good stab in the dark at the grand total

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In reply to a post by candlerb:

And at the current rate, they won't get to 25m properties until March 2029. They are going to have to crank things up substantially to meet the Dec 2026 target.

It's quite some task. Even the current build rate is impressive, given the difficulties in obtaining labour and materials these days. Keeping the quality up will be a challenge.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

And at the current rate, they won't get to 25m properties until March 2029. They are going to have to crank things up substantially to meet the Dec 2026 target.

It’s fast, but not fast enough! They were making headway at c.70K per week at one point, but if you were to draw a straight line you get:

Weeks to 31 Dec ‘26 = 256
Properties to pass = 25M - 6.5M = 18.5M
Required (average) run rate = 18.5M / 256 = 72,266

So the current run rate is 22,265 per week short. In other words they have to accelerate (on average) by 44% over the current average run rate.

Either they have to ramp this up or as you say at the present run rate, they won’t pass the 25M mark until the end of first quarter of 2029.

looks like they are on on track probably because they pulled forward easier later premises looks like then so this now uplhill so expect other bespoke problems to be extended out in leadtime to enable the primary 2026 number to be reached

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

looks like they are on on track probably because they pulled forward easier later premises looks like then so this now uplhill so expect other bespoke problems to be extended out in leadtime to enable the primary 2026 number to be reached

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

looks like they are on on track probably because they pulled forward easier later premises looks like then so this now uplhill so expect other bespoke problems to be extended out in leadtime to enable the primary 2026 number to be reached

I recommend Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss 😉

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