In reply to a post by candlerb:

I'm talking Openreach.

So am I it was only around 3 weeks after I saw the coils that openreach fibre was available here as was shocked, but as I said above, maybe Zzoomm being here made them move a bit faster

I think it can be any where between weeks and months just depending on whether everything upstream is already in place. Even once a fibre is visibly installed it doesn't mean that all of the other work back to the exchange has already been completed.

In reply to a post by ian72:

I think it can be any where between weeks and months just depending on whether everything upstream is already in place. Even once a fibre is visibly installed it doesn't mean that all of the other work back to the exchange has already been completed.

One of the larger estates here had openreach fibre a while here, again I think they are following zzoomm and one road for some reason have had openreach Full fibre for a few years. i thought it was strange that it was just one road, but knowing now that FTTP branch off the same fibre for FTTC, I suppose it was not a big thing to do.
Still strange.

What is a bit strange is I went for a walk today to Lidls and noticed down a road where half of it is Zzoomm and Openreach and the other half is Zzoomm only. I also noticed that the four roads I walked down, only 3 houses had Fibre and those three houses are here by me in my road, two Zzoomm and one Openreach. I normally cycle or go by car, so I don't get to look at things, but as I walked today I thought I would have a nose. Maybe more will change as the year goes on.

I also noticed a pole on the way back that is a bit iffy, I would not like to climb on it, It was like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it has 4 CBTs on, as it is close to flats and bungalows.

Well, now that the holidays are over and people are getting back to some normality, not that it was any different for me as I worked my normal days, maybe more people will order.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

knowing now that FTTP branch off the same fibre for FTTC

This is not true, they use the same aggregation node but separate fibre strands.

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

knowing now that FTTP branch off the same fibre for FTTC

This is not true, they use the same aggregation node but separate fibre strands.

That is what I meant, off the same aggregation node, but I presume the rest of it is easier as it will go via openreach ducts. It is just strange that they only did one road a few years ago and that was it. Unless someone lived in the road who paid a lot of money to have it done

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

but I presume the rest of it is easier

I am sure there are thousands of Openreach employees and contractors shaking their heads at that comment when time after time they find blocked ducts that need desilting or excavation to resolve. As you may know I worked for BT for many years so can accurately say the vast majority of deployments either fibre or copper are not easy.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

It is just strange that they only did one road a few years ago and that was it.

Was it a new-build estate?

In reply to a post by dect:

I am sure there are thousands of Openreach employees and contractors shaking their heads at that comment when time after time they find blocked ducts that need desilting or excavation to resolve. As you may know I worked for BT for many years so can accurately say the vast majority of deployments either fibre or copper are not easy.

I said easier, not easy. I am sure there are plenty of blocked ducts, since a lot of them are years old and no doubt no maintenance on them whatsoever. This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Was it a new-build estate?

No, well not as old as a lot of the estates here, it is still old. Maybe it had something to do with the racecourse being close by. There was a block of flats built next to the football ground not, so many years back, and they did not have fibre

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I said easier, not easy. I am sure there are plenty of blocked ducts, since a lot of them are years old and no doubt no maintenance on them whatsoever. This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

To be fair I did read it wrongly as easy rather than easier