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The benefits of living in an SDU

its *Easier* ....... but still not perfect in some case. Just remember that "inserting fibre cables to the home" wasn't on the bingo cards of property design in the last century ......

you installed the cabling needed at build time and it was done.

The reason it's easier isn't the work. It's because with SDUs they only deploy and install the cable AFTER the customer places the order. With MDUs they have to do it BEFORE so there is an upfront cost to deploy to all the units in a building without knowing whether anyone in it would subscribe.

In reply to a post by squarecrumpets:

In reply to a post by Taras:

In reply to a post by squarecrumpets:

The benefits of living in an SDU

its *Easier* ....... but still not perfect in some case. Just remember that "inserting fibre cables to the home" wasn't on the bingo cards of property design in the last century ......

you installed the cabling needed at build time and it was done.

The reason it's easier isn't the work. It's because with SDUs they only deploy and install the cable AFTER the customer places the order. With MDUs they have to do it BEFORE so there is an upfront cost to deploy to all the units in a building without knowing whether anyone in it would subscribe.

i put "you installed the cabling needed at build time and it was done." that actually applies to both mdu and sdus. The point that i was trying to make and i didn't is this.

We built sdus with no thought to new systems being added to properties. We never thought of pushing electricity back into the grid or new forms etc. Same with anything.

That said, the toby boxes and some of other systems Europe has makes it easier but not really easy.

Anyways the biggest issue with mdus over sdus is way-leaves.

The benefits of living nightmare in an MDU

On the fibre checker page for my home address, it said "Available to order soon". I then got an email last week saying "We're building in your area" and the fibre checker has also changed to that too. Who knows what's going on. I have seen OR engineers around occasionally, but mine seems to have gone backwards.

Mine shows ‘We’re building in this area already’ from Openreach October 2025 Build Plan,
but then Openreach Fibre checker shows ‘We’ll be building in this area in the next year’.

confused.com

1 week ago email from Openreach ......"We've reviewed our build plans for your area and there will be a delay getting Full Fibre to..."

Today's email ..."Great news, our engineers are upgrading the broadband network to this property and Full Fibre will be available to order soon"....
Doesnt give me much confidence in any time estimates etc

@rarrar

Exactly the same message that I got along with the follow up email stating "available to order soon"

Edited by ToneDeaf (Wed 29-Oct-25 15:28:17)

Yeah, the statuses appear to be stuck in some cases.

My postcode is still “we’ll be building here in the next year”: meanwhile, a single house within a neighbouring postcode shows “available to order now”, with all other houses in the same neighbouring postcode showing “we’ll be building here in the next year’, despite the BT Wholesale availability checker reporting FTTP on Demand 1000/220 for the majority of properties in the said postcode [along with two just showing 330/50 for no apparent reason].

Not really sure whats up or if its just a glitch. I haven’t seen any Openreach works in my estate, so not sure where the network has come from!