New Connection in non-FTTP area

Hello

I live in South Cambs and have an FTTC connection, getting ~75kbps. We all want more, obviously, but my exchange (Harston) is not FTTP enabled. I suspect it never will be, and it will ultimately be phased out. A new development on the edge of my village has full FTTP and is connected to Cambridge Trunks, bypassing the local exchange completely. We also have County Broadband sniffing around the edge of the village, on the other side from the new development, but for one reason or another they have not been able to provide a service to the centre of the village. NTL/Virgin Media is only available at one end of the village: not the end where I live.

Whilst I accept I now just have to wait until full fibre becomes available (I assume it will come from the new development and the old Exchange will be cut off), I am not sure what happens now in the interim for new connections? With the withdrawal of copper, how does a person who is in the centre of the old village where there is no FTTP available, get connected? I have a neighbour who is just completing an infill development and has no current connection. By that I mean there is no current copper phone line to the building - it is a new build. If Openreach are not installing copper any more, how will they be connected?

Edited by evanstim (Tue 31-Oct-23 09:36:06)

A couple of things here.

Firstly, it is common for smaller exchanges not to serve fibre and for it to come from a larger exchange, happens all over the UK so nothing to worry about.

As far as the future. If FTTP is not available then copper won't be cut off. The PSTN (phone service) over the old copper lines is stopping but broadband services will still be available until FTTP is delivered - they will not stop sell on copper for a premises that does not have FTTP available.

Not 100% sure what the deal is on an individual new build, they would need to speak to OpenReach as to what the options are but as there is an USO in place I would say that if BT can't provide fibre then they would have to provide copper (unless the costs are above the threshold in which case the owner would be asked to pay towards the installatio).