In reply to a post by whasiho:

I am thinking long term - 10 years time. What about then?
My situation is that FTTP is being installed where I live but not to our street. They are prepared to connect us but the process will be quite disruptive and requires all of us to agree. Will we regret it if we don't accept? We get good speeds on the current FTTC and we are all happy with what we have at the moment.

If the people on your street all make the decision to stick with FTTC when the rest of the country has gigabit+ fibre available then it's very likely that those houses will be hard to sell in five years time.

It's worth the disruption required to get FTTP into the area.

Edited by jpm (Tue 09-Jan-24 12:38:10)

there is no case to stay on fttc/adsl once fttp is available. Even if you only want 80/20 fibre can supply that and you will get 80/20 (ex overheads) excluding issues.

The average speeds that isps provide atm will then become about how much capacity they have installed and not the line itself.

In reply to a post by whasiho:

I am thinking long term - 10 years time. What about then?
My situation is that FTTP is being installed where I live but not to our street. They are prepared to connect us but the process will be quite disruptive and requires all of us to agree. Will we regret it if we don't accept? We get good speeds on the current FTTC and we are all happy with what we have at the moment.

Is it Openreach installing the FTTP or an altnet?

An altnet.

In reply to a post by whasiho:

An altnet.

When you say all the residents have to agree, do you mean agree to the works (a wayleave for example) or do you need to agree to take the service?

In reply to a post by whasiho:

An altnet.

Given what you say, I'd suggest it'd be fine to wait for Openreach's FTTP rollout to reach you, which I imagine it will eventually.

But is it just a case of wayleaves, or actually a requirement to sign up for the altnet's service?

We all have to agree on the works (it is a wayleave), a majority certainly on the service, possibly all of us

In reply to a post by whasiho:

I am thinking long term - 10 years time. What about then?
My situation is that FTTP is being installed where I live but not to our street. They are prepared to connect us but the process will be quite disruptive and requires all of us to agree. Will we regret it if we don't accept? We get good speeds on the current FTTC and we are all happy with what we have at the moment.

Which company ? We have heard of this recently from another poster

In reply to a post by whasiho:

We all have to agree on the works (it is a wayleave), a majority certainly on the service, possibly all of us

I wouldn't feel the need to be bounced into taking an altnet service just because they are making this offer.

I'd guess Openreach FTTP will reach you eventually.

a wayleave doesn't mean you are contracted into buying that service, it should just mean you are allowing them to provision equipment on your land. Like a private road.

Please can you double check the documents.