R100 query

Just wondering if R100 is still a "thing"?
Or if it's been abandoned what with the current economic crisis!
The potential strikes don't help I suppose.

It's just that we've been promised a fibre connection a couple of times now. By September 2022 was the last thing when I looked earlier in the year. Well September has come and gone and on checking Digital Scotland, it now says a rather nebulous "Based on the current engineering schedule your address is in scope to receive its superfast connection in the first half of 2023".

Or is this constant slippage just part of the course?

Frustrated I am.

PS. We are some two miles from the local town that has been fibre enabled for a couple of years now and even the local village a couple of miles down the other end of our road had fibre installed a while back. SW Scotland.

R100 very much still a thing - slippage is the name of the game... Around here, I understand that is mostly because Openreach don't have any real idea of the status of all of their civil engineering estate (because they've not need to touch most of it for 20 or more years). Ducts silt up, they collapse... they need repairs.

Also hearing rumblings of a paradigm shift that instead of rolling out in (say) 20 towns with 1-2 crews they're shifting to 1-2 towns with 20 crews in each. The overall rollout takes the same but some premises will gain and some lose with the rescheduling.

Thanks for the reply, appreciated.

Looks like I had better not hold my breath then!

Nothing round here will have been touched since it was put in the ground some 50/60 years ago! So that will be a couple of miles or so of underground ducting either side of our property in God knows what sort of state.

At best this spur feeds around half a dozen rural properties/farms.

When we moved in some 45 years ago, the house had one of the old black bakelite analogue phones. Which we continued to use for many years until forced to take a "modern" phone. Now the house is stuffed with any amount of digital equipment. How times have changed, says the X computer programmer.