FTTP availability by exchange question.

If I search https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/exchanges/find

CB8 8YW - Returns a result of Wickhambrook (EAWKB)
CB8 8YR - Also returns a result of Wickhambrook (EAWKB)

The strange thing is, the first search, CB8 8YW says that EAWKB does not have Openreach FTTP enabled, however it is shown as enabled for CB8 8YR.

Anyone know why is this the case?

Not every postcode in an exchange serving area will have native FTTP enabled.

Case in point:
- my address FTTP-enabled
- immediate next door neighbours 50 metres away on a different postcode FTTP-enabled (courtesy of my serving CBT for their address)
- neighbours 50m further along (same postcode as immediate neighbours) not FTTP enabled - too far from serving CBT.

All served by the same FTTP head-end and local copper exchanges. Just the nature of the beast.

Most granular check is the Openreach or BT Wholesale address based checkers.

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 27-Nov-22 17:55:38)

As far as I can tell, both postcodes are served by the same exchange, cabinet and overhead fibre (Which passes my house, before continuing on to the FTTP postcode).
It appears that Openreach / BT have decided not to offer FTTP to the properties closer to the cabinet.

Cabinet proximity unfortunately has nothing to do with it. Do you know where’s the nearest / serving CBT for your property?

What do the Openreach and BTW checkers say?

Yes I know the location of our cabinet. The cable runs through ducting across the main road before emerging by the first wooden pole. The line follows the road through our postcode onto the postcode that has FTTP.
The availability checker reports that it is available for them but not us.

A CBT is not a cabinet it is a fibre connection on a pole or underground to supply a number of properties.

Nope. Not cabinet. I repeat not cabinet 😅

CBT = connectorised block terminal. One of these ether on the serving pole near your house or in footway

For a village of that size it seems likely that the FTTP is from a government sponsored programme and is to ensure everyone can get above 24 or 30 Mb/s.

Those close enough to the cabinet if it's FTTC enabled already get that.

You're lucky to even have FTTP installed at your exchange.

I'm currently connected to the Kelvedon exchange with over 2200 residential premises, and the only people with FTTP are the new housing estates that have been built within the village (there have been over 300 premises approved at both ends of the exchange location), so it's probably providing to over 2500 premises now.

BT refuse to offer FTTP to the rest of the customers due to the fact they can't source the engineers to carry out the civils work (that's what the OR engineers locally have said).

In reply to a post by Bryer:

BT refuse to offer FTTP to the rest of the customers due to the fact they can't source the engineers to carry out the civils work (that's what the OR engineers locally have said).

Strange way of putting it. They have the engineers to do the work of course but they're working elsewhere, with Kelvedon not in the first third of the UK Openreach build to.