In reply to a post by ian72:

When OpenReach FTTP came to our area we didn't have any flyers to tell us it was available - I only knew as I happened to go on the BT website to check package availability.

With our BDUK FTTP, the only reason we knew it was coming was that gf found surveyor leaning on our bin, apparently the BT customers where contacted after it was deployed, everyone else it was by word of mouth, some never knew for couple of years!

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Had a letter from Vodafone yesterday, saying good news you can upgrade to full fibre or something like. i have never used Vodafone for broadband, i did for mobile many years ago, but it was addressed to the occupier.

The post office deliver these "occupier" letters, pretty much as a revenue stream. They also deliver leaflets for pizza, other restaurants and double glazing. I recycle the lot!

In reply to a post by burble:

With our BDUK FTTP, the only reason we knew it was coming was that gf found surveyor leaning on our bin, apparently the BT customers where contacted after it was deployed, everyone else it was by word of mouth, some never knew for couple of years!

I knew about Zzoomm, but I did not know about openreach until I checked for some reason.
There is a openreach van outside my place now, well outside next door, they must be having fibre, which don't shock me, they have to have something before other people. I thought Openreach would have removed the original copper cable since it is not used any more, so another cable on the pole going outside my window.

The Vodafone letter is a bit iffy, they say that their fibre is faster than BT, but you look at it carefully, and they are using FTTC as an example., so people who have no idea about the difference between FTTP and FTTC will think that BT FTTp is slower than Vodafone, even if it uses the same tech.

24 month contract again, providers really need to lower those contracts and not stick the price up for doing so, still makes me laugh at the download speed guarantee of 50Mb/s, if I was paying for fibre and for 100Mb/s, I would expect a better guarantee than that, but people will just suck in the propaganda.18Mb/s upload, that is pretty poor to be honest

Royal Mail deliver the post they are given to deliver. You can put those flyers into the recycling bin if they are something you're not interested in.

In reply to a post by jpm:

Royal Mail deliver the post they are given to deliver. You can put those flyers into the recycling bin if they are something you're not interested in.

Not, if they have my address on they go into the normal bin,

Companies need return on their investment …. relying on word of mouth just isn’t good enough.

I got an OpenReach flyer about 3 months after I had gone live

In reply to a post by bedrock:

I got an OpenReach flyer about 3 months after I had gone live

Interesting you say that, I was given an Openreach flyer by someone who was FTTP enabled back in 2019 although to date I have never heard anyone else say they have got one elsewhere.

Interesting, wasnt aware of this although I wonder how well it works in practice, and the implications noted on the page about missing things like council planning permission letters.

That's to scare you off.