Our local build was in 3 parts, you could see the 3 parts on the map. One part is done and is in the testing/final commissioning part. The BTwholesale records have been touched with 1000/220 fttpod but no fttp yet nor has OR been updated. I know my pon should be live on the OR DB in the next two weeks but still i'm doing the below.

Of course i'm checking about 10 postcodes every other hour.......... WHAT HAVE I TURNED INTO......😂😂🙈

Meh, amateur

I've turned into some weird stalker. I can spot a fibre civils gang, or a fibre splicing van at 250yds and my wife genuinely thinks that I've lost my marbles. I take a different route home in the car so I can pass 2 or 3 part-installed poles to see if there has been any change in the previous 24 hours that might indicate progress.

As far as I can tell, it looks like the fibre splicing gang for Netomnia are blitzing the adjacent town to get it ready to go live. Apparently we are next, and the civils team seem to have more or less wound down now, ready for the fibre team to move up the road once they are done in their current location. Surely it can't be more than a couple more weeks now...as I've been saying for the last 4 years!

In reply to a post by daern:

Meh, amateur

I've turned into some weird stalker. I can spot a fibre civils gang, or a fibre splicing van at 250yds and my wife genuinely thinks that I've lost my marbles. I take a different route home in the car so I can pass 2 or 3 part-installed poles to see if there has been any change in the previous 24 hours that might indicate progress.

i know that feeling

In reply to a post by daern:

Surely it can't be more than a couple more weeks now...as I've been saying for the last 4 years!

My cbt will go live sometime next week or the week after...... it was up 2/4/20!!!!! And it took, 2 years for that to happen!.

I'm still very happy as OR worked thru some horrible weather.

on the 2nd of april 2020 OR, put a cbt on the telegraph pole opposite my house. last week they were rerouting fibre in the splitter/splice tray holder.

This morning it went liveeeeeeeee, no intermediate fttp on demand 1000/220 but the full fat wbc fttp .........

And just now i've finally ordered FTTP...........

JUST TAKEN 6 YEARS ........ (hampshire cc informed me that my area would get fttp in the summer of 2018 i think)

*thud*

Edited by Taras (Wed 27-Mar-24 15:26:00)

Good to hear that Taras, really pleased for you

Me too .. Contact with OR have been fab. Hopefully money allocated for project gigabit will not be used for my postcode and one other.

Good news!

The Netomnia wombles have been spotted one street over today, beavering away at splicing up a pole ready for service, so it's almost within touching distance of my house now. Annoyingly, the road in question has had OR FTTP for a year now, so will get a second provider before we get a first, but I'm still optimistic that the end of the wait is near. This calendar decade for sure!

In reply to a post by Taras:

This morning it went liveeeeeeeee, no intermediate fttp on demand 1000/220 but the full fat wbc fttp .........

And just now i've finally ordered FTTP...........

That's nice, glad you got there in the end.

FTTPoD at 1000/220? Only ever showed 330 here before actual WBC flavour arrived.

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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.

Sadly this has just happened to me & 8 neighbours. FTTP has been completed for the majority of the road but our phone pole in the middle of the road hasn't had it's fibre connected up and it's just hanging off the pole. It's been like this for nearly 2 years in a forgotten state with OpenReach saying that April 24 is the completion date. Now they've just stated that it's been cancelled and there are further plans and no reason given.

Edited by sudman (Wed 10-Apr-24 12:57:01)

I got email yesterday to say my property is in full fibre in plan until I go to Openreach website enter my post code it saying Build planned between now and Dec-2026

It's a waiting game now as I knew already that Full Fibre already layed fibre optic cables in my area they did it here few weeks now by large of Openreach vans and engineers in my area.