Surely if you are doing this on your own cash you'd get a quote for FTTPoD and go with whatever is cheaper?

To get fttpod they�d need the fibre cabinet in the first place which is what the community partnership is for I assume.

Hi guys,

I've paid the 50% deposit. The openreach checker is still displaying the 'We're exploring solutions' will this change or stay like this?

Thanks,

I don't recall the checker changed from effectively "not available" when we signed our agreement in April 2015 until our community funded AIO cab became "available" in September 2016.

You really need to start leafleting the other residents. Make it plain to them that if they each contribute £50 they will then reap the benefits of faster service with minimal extra costs. Get into the local pub, the post office, &c and spread the word otherwise you will find that you raise nothing and they all just take service off the back of all your hard work.

I have done leafleting 3 roads (approx 40 homes) and had no response at all. I�m thinking of posting/mailing the leaflets via a postal service in batches.

Knocking on doors and speaking to people is also a good way to get responses. When we were looking at community fibre a majority of responses came through our already existing Facebook group where they could ask questions and raise concerns. It maybe worth setting up a quick website or something to get some online presence. I found that letters through post on their own either got lost, forgotten or probably classed as spam.

In reply to a post by max360:

I want to get the cabinet upgraded. I have been quoted £4.7K to upgrade the cabinet via a community partnership.

The problem is how to raise funding, even £1000 and I�m thinking of covering the rest of the cost.

What we did was printed out a letter saying: Are you interested in faster broadband? Then we laid out the idea with upgrading the cabinet etc. It was suggested to us to use a crowd funding page, examples
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fibrebroadband (EDIT: hm... I see this is YOUR site)
https://about.spacehive.com/crowdfunding-fibre-helpi...

In my area people were very keen having �faster� broadband, and willling to chip in. But in our case we needed the support before we could go forward, and it seems in your case you have already committed (pretty brave!). Good luck

P.s. people in my area didn�t really understand the broadband �stuff� so we also had a session to inform them what is required. In that meeting we also asked who were willing to participate. I think you will be better of to find a community �partner� that is willing to help as well. We also had a mailing list for those who want to be updated on the progress (yes, we also had a website, but somehow email was the easiest way to reach them, they don�t tend to go to the website unless you link it in your email).

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Hi all,
Just an update. I funded the cabinet myself and I didn't have the time to leaflet more homes etc...
The build work has now started. You can see the pictures/updates at: http://www.stechford.online/
Last week, had one of the openreach guy�s doing survey up and down the road. I asked him, he said it�s for the FTTP. The next days two plain white vans turned up, they lifted the BT manhole covers and ran the yellow rodding tube and pulled through the blue draw ropes.

This means, the area would now have the option of FTTC and FTTP?

Thanks,
Max360

I would discount the notion of FTTP, since you would know about from the community fibre scheme, and they don't usually do FTTP and FTTC at the same time in the same area