Did it come with a house? 😂

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Did it come with a house? 😂

That was my solution to getting FTTP

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Did it come with a house? 😂

That was my solution to getting FTTP

In some parts of the UK thats a fair few houses 😂

Just a quick update - all 12 ports are now filled on the CBT on the pole opposite my house, with fibre cable being run to several other poles along my road (and the neighbouring one).

Checking for availability for one of my neighbours now says "Waiting List", and my own connection on the BT chceker now says:

"Our records show the following FTTP network service information for these premises:-Single Dwelling Unit Residential OH Feed with no anticipated issues.

ONT exists with active service. No spare ports are available. A new ONT may be ordered and will be placed in Waiters list until the network is ready."

I suspect that's the first full FTTPoD connection to be reported here! I'll be very interested to see what happens next, as the BT website would still happily take orders for my neighbours... will they add extra capacity, bearing in mind that's the one and only CBT for a mile or so, or will they decline orders?

I'll keep an eye on things and no doubt will find out in due course!

(The plans for my area used to say 2026 in terms of rollout, and I can't find a current forecast, so they won't be enabling the wider area for some time yet.)

It's good some other neighbours are getting the benefit.

In my case four other properties were enabled (over 3 years ago), a couple of neighbours are more elderly so I never pushed it really because if I do that and they have issues (they use their landlines a lot) with a VoIP service I would end up sorting it out, and they really don't do much on the Internet anyway. Another neighbour told me they already had fibre, I tried to explain the differences but they didn't believe me when I said it was not actually fibre they had, but of course its on their bills as fibre and sold as fibre, so I gave up on that.

I kind of expected they would move over to FTTP over the years as they renewed contracts or shopped for cheaper packages, but that hasn't been the case to date, so its just been for me.

Edited by E300 (Wed 28-Feb-24 15:47:57)

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I kind of expected they would move over to FTTP over the years as they renewed contracts or shopped for cheaper packages, but that hasn't been the case to date, so its just been for me.

It's interesting to see how it's gone - my area also has plenty of retired folks (mostly bungalows), with a few younger families mixed in. It's been a pretty even split in terms of uptake, some of those who I thought would jump at it haven't, and vice-versa.

The other thing that happened is that over the past couple of years the checker has shown greater availability - originally it was just people connected to the pole with the CBT, but the range now goes to the other end of the road (2 further poles away), and to the neighbouring road (with cables now running over the T junction to another pole). I guess that there's a set distance that fibre can be run from a CBT, and even if it has to go via other poles they'll still do it! I also suspect those folks in the next road are blissfully unaware of why they could suddenly order FTTP...

It also shows how much pent-up demand there is. Bearing in mind the expensive stuff (laying a mile of fibre, sorting out ducts along the main road and so forth) has been done already via my order, I'd have thought it'd have pushed my area further up the totem pole in terms of rollout... but it's not to be.