Fttp fiber broadband

Hello does any openreach engineer’s on here know when the larklane exchange will be upgraded to fttp we could only get 16 download 1 upload since bt started broadband 20 years ago and have had a telephone line with them since early 1900s.
On the openreach map it says upgrade by 2025 but all the other surrounding exchanges have been upgraded or are in the process of being upgraded.
Any help here would be much appreciated cheers.

FTTP doesn’t originate from your nearest copper based exchange (serving you voice/PSTN and ADSL services). Instead much like FTTC broadband, it originates from a larger exchange called a GEA Head End exchange that serves a much broader area and number of premises, typically in the thousands or tens of thousands of premises.

If indeed surrounding areas are fed from that serving exchange for FTTP then it is already enabled, just that the final legs of the build-out to your neck of the woods are not complete - however not to underestimate how much work is involved in actually doing that.

If you already have FTTC - then some of the fibre infrastructure to serve your cabinet is already in place and could be leveraged for FTTP, depending on capacity. Then again it may need additional capacity or upgrades. It’s very difficult to know with any certainty.

In terms of firm timescales for the completion of native builds, without any BDUK etc influence, again it is very difficult to get an accurate prediction. Often or not Openreach build priorities change. It’s really wait and see.

What you say is correct, but is the technical part of what we are told by the checkers. The local exchange is shown as FTTC/FTTP enabled or not and that is what the OP has to rely on .

What checker lists the local exchange as FTTP/FTTC enabled or not?

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Availability is what we need to know.

This one.
Similarly.
samknows.

In effect, the BT Wholesale one.

Edit: In the middle two of those I only entered the exchange name.

Edited by pluralist (Fri 23-Jul-21 12:08:41)

There is also the right-hand column of this Openreach list.

Plenty of wiggle room in the official build programme - could be anywhere within four years; 2022-23, 2024-25 like many others far and wide.

Edit to say that it’s clear that Larklane is a Headend exchange and is already FTTP enabled/serving, though not yet in the OPs street obviously.

Edited by Pheasant (Fri 23-Jul-21 13:55:02)

Cheers for reply yes fttp is no we’re to be seen on the lark lane fttp build I checked loads of streets all are either fttc or cable. Cracking me up as they keep enabling fttp every few months all around. My concern is if they do my address as they enabled everyone to either fttc adsl 2 or gfast the last time on and left our two streets on the older broadband adsl or whatever it was.

In reply to a post by Darkage7:

have had a telephone line with them since early 1900s.

Wow, can't think of many on here who can make a similar claim

From your op sounds like you are on an exchange only (EO) line, which is why you weren’t migrated to FTTC.