In reply to a post by NGA:

Waiting for / following the progress of the FTTP rollout in my area felt very much like a re-run of monitoring the rollout of FTTC a decade earlier. I visited the availability checker daily and when out & about, I was always on the look out for any activity by
Openreach or their contractors. For FTTP, I also regularly checked Streetworks and the BIDB database.

Truth be told, now that I have FTTP, I kind of miss the chase (how sad!), although I still maintain an interest/follow the progress of the rollout in others areas of my home town & surrounding areas

Again, this sounds a bit sad, but I must say that the feeling of excitement when FTTP finally shows as. ‘Available’ at your home address is great. Had the same feeling when FTTC showed as ‘Available’. I was so excited & felt like a kid at Christmas 😂

ok this feels normal amongst TBBers.😂

Perhaps you should try and get a life

It does get a bit silly but I was tracking roadworks and adjusting my lunchtime walk to explore where may be having work done.

Openreach changed their tracker to say build by dec 2023 (rather than 2026) around October. It became available to order early December and I had FTTP installed just before Christmas. So they did meet their planned dates.

VM is being installed in the town and they also became available late December, only to change their mind and it’s still not available to order due to some technical issue.

FTTP rolling out in my road in April 2019 caught me by surprise having resigned myself to slow FTTC as Openreach were still saying there were no plans to build in my area even up to when the build started.

In reply to a post by simon194:

FTTP rolling out in my road in April 2019 caught me by surprise having resigned myself to slow FTTC as Openreach were still saying there were no plans to build in my area even up to when the build started.

At that stage, OR wasn't really conveying to the public what really was in build and what wasn't in a timely manner ! Its alot better now thank god but still it always can be better.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Be prepared for disappointment. Hopefully this won't happen to you, but there have been plenty of cases reported of fibre builds being abandoned part-way through, or subject to extremely long delays due to unforeseen problems.

It's nice to be given a "completion date", but in reality, it's not available until it's available.

This doesn't fill me with joy. Four years after the first "Fibre is coming!" email from Openreach, only in the last couple of weeks have we finally had a roll of coiled up conduit appear on our pole (and this is from Netomnia / Youfibre anyway - see my other thread).

My worry is that they've run this conduit back to a verge-side box on a nearby road, presumably intending to run a connection from there to a nearby main road about 100yds away. The problem is that I already know that Openreach tried and failed to do this 12 months ago and ended up taking a business fibre connection to a farm very near my house via an extremely convoluted route (right past my front door!) because it was the only way they could find to do it. I don't think Netomnia / Youfibre have discovered this yet, so I'm still half convinced that "a coil of conduit" is all the FTTP we'll ever get here :/

I'm still optimistic, but definitely dampening down my enthusiasm until it actually happens. It's a very frustrating waiting game, I can tell you!

In reply to a post by simon194:

FTTP rolling out in my road in April 2019 caught me by surprise having resigned myself to slow FTTC as Openreach were still saying there were no plans to build in my area even up to when the build started.

FTTP on our end of village caught everyone out, including OR, it was denied by OR and BDUK, that any FTTP was coming our way, it was only when I sent a photo of the fibre being installed that any of them would accept it was there.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by Taras:

How did you cope waiting for fibre? I've been given a date for the completion of the local fibre build, which is great to manage things and get ready for the install.

Be prepared for disappointment. Hopefully this won't happen to you, but there have been plenty of cases reported of fibre builds being abandoned part-way through, or subject to extremely long delays due to unforeseen problems.

It's nice to be given a "completion date", but in reality, it's not available until it's available.

Our exchange build finished around October 2021, with approx 5 or 6 smaller rural and more difficult/expensive to reach/lower ROI area's left out. I have badgered the Exec complaints contact I had every 4 months since and been told it is coming, it isn't coming, and as recently as December when the build was due to start in January that it's out of the plan for this year. The checker still shows Dec 2026.

We are still listed as BDUK White which would be great if the North East Regional contract had ever gotten underway.

OR will get here eventually, just the long wait continues.

In reply to a post by burble:

In reply to a post by simon194:

FTTP rolling out in my road in April 2019 caught me by surprise having resigned myself to slow FTTC as Openreach were still saying there were no plans to build in my area even up to when the build started.

FTTP on our end of village caught everyone out, including OR, it was denied by OR and BDUK, that any FTTP was coming our way, it was only when I sent a photo of the fibre being installed that any of them would accept it was there.

If it was a bduk build then some in OR may have not known about it. I assume you were in that part of the villiage and if you have fttp now, enjoy 😊

When I first heard we were having FTTP around here I did think great for people who wanted it and I even thought that I wanted it, then as time went on, I thought why do I need it? it was 2020 when I first saw them dining up our cycle path to lay Fibre, so two years more or less before it got up here, I was not bothered and even when it came here I was still going to stay on FTTC, it was only price that got me to change.