When is fibre coming to my exchange

I know I am being overly keen but when you can see the light at the very distant end of the tunnel I would love to know when they are planning to start and wondered if any market town had building work starting. I live in Neston which was on that list, OR stated checking the ducts etc. Not for me in Watford. Was on original list and still no further news than October ! And nothing new since. Have contacted lots of other suppliers, Hyperoptic etc and nothing planned for residential areas. A few have installed FTTP in business parks.

Am with Virgin, but they not the greatest and would like options rather than Virgin or 27mpbs with everyone else. I put my postcode in on the open reach site and it says we have no plans of yet to bring FTTP but on the map it shows our town as in the plan. Hopefully it will all just happen overnight. And not one of them in Northern Ireland. Typical of openreach. I would suggest you look at the map link posted by Random Precision.

You have much better coverage than the rest of the UK. Those area names mean nothing really do they? So much can change in the timescales theyre talking about, Like you there seems little point other than someting to press release.

Gary mentioned Monmouthshire; I live there and a great deal of it is rural. Motherwell is on the list but I already have it in Motherwell. I know only small patches of the town currently have it. What a surprise yet again another extensive list of locations revealed but like every time no new locations in Leicestershire it seems like this is the county and City that Openreach have forgotten about apart from in new housing builds.

The thing I can see is that the network is in such a poor state in the area that they are leaving it as long as they can to have to do the upgrades. Amen, Alex. Lucky enough that Virgin Media has cabled a lot of Charnwood. People always blame Openreach, but last time i looked it was a free market where others can build networks if they wish to.

Leicestershire overall is and always has been crap for broadband. You will notice that vast areas, probably the majority of it, are still not in the plans to be upgraded to fibre broadband. We should have been in this stage more than a decade ago. This will be a lot of money going into private companies, like BT, who will will then reap in the whole benefits and profits of it, whereas the taxpayer will have no share in these newly built fibre networks or its future revenues.

As well as making WFH workable for everyone. I put my postcode in and it says that we are in the rollout plan. Have been loads of open reach vans in the estate in Dawley Bank recently putting in cable so fingers crossed it will be here soon. It states Midlothian but Midlothian is a council area not a town or city, do you think this means the whole of Midlothian?

Yeah I was wondering that as well since Virgin Media pulled the fibre building out from Newtongrange and Gorebridge I have had to think about the possibly of moving house in the longer term. Fingers, toes, legs and arms crossed this means they will hit all the major towns, villages and their exchanges in Midlothian. Peter — have Virgin definitely canned the Newtongrange and Gorebridge expansions or just postponed them until things settle down?

I stay in Dalkeith Woodburn we have Virgin, but the new housing at the top and over near the campus has never been touched by Virgin which I thought was a bit strange. Granger — Not sure if this is forever or temp but all the dates have been removed from the works tracking sites so its likely they were pulled at council level.

New dates may either not be set at VM or it could be a back log at the council level due to the lack of staff to log new works. Nothing in Aylesbury, they are planning to keep there aluminium opps I mean copper cable running for life!

At times there has been around 15 engineers doing bits. A town is on the Jul 29 list and again on the 15 Sept list therfore it is not an extra.

Does it indicate that the start date has been put back or pulled forward? There is a lot of very very old infrastructure — as befits the starting point for UK telephony. None of this is insuperable but OR are looking for low hanging fruit to justify the investment.

Anything with complicated on it is put in the next drawer down for later. On the flip side Community Fibre and Hyperoptic are making fast inroads into the MDU segment and talking some quite big funded numbers to roll out very good fast cheap services. Bear in mind that much of London is served by Virgin Media which should have near-gigabit speeds on offer to everyone within 16 months.

The last announcement of 94 towns and villages was entirely made of up places in Northern Ireland. A figure the mainland could only dream of. Hopefully they will do a better job elsewhere than they have in Sevenoaks where openreach damaged our copper cable while digging up the road to lay fibre, and are unable to fix the copper cable nor get around to setting up fibre installation to the house until March next year. So no internet at all for the time being and BT seem unable to do anything to force them to fix it.

Can I get an upgrade from 2. Why does that matter. The commercial roll-outs will of course go to profitable areas — which are not the sub-superfast areas. I would like to know if the fiber is coming soon to Tower Hamlets.

Literally the street next to mine has optic fiber but not mine. Yet again duplication of installations. For example the exchanges between Chelmsford and Colchester where VM refuse to extend so residents stuck with aging OR networks that are falling apart at the seams.

Oh yes too right. If OR were to be restricted from the commercial areas they would end up with a higher per premises cost and less revenue to rollout FTTP. VM have been offering Ultrafast for some time and other Altnets are free to join them in their patches. Whilst there may have considered an element of heading off competition my view is that OR are mainly taking into account marketing data to retain revenue, their location reduction strategy and the availability of resource.

So the published list should be good news for many in these and surrounding areas. Building multiple FTTP lines to the same properties seems a tremendous waste of resources. The article here the other day showed us lightyears behind South Korea, Japan, Spain etc.

Even the French were ahead. Residents of Kelvedon and Feering have had to start a Community Fibre Partnership to even get Openreach to think about it. Openreach treats all providers in an equivalent way Openreach is now allowed to worse ADSL to drive subcribers to fibre doing the above would break every rule in the book and commercially disadvange the many copper only ISP and openreach would be up in front of licence for breaking its condition of Licence and what was previously known as the undertakings.

Openreach have made it impossible for county broadband — who on earth told you that — dont believe everything you get told —. This fibre does not belong to Openreach and they may not connect anything to it. The OFNL cable to the site was laid by Openreach and uses existing ducting to the Openreach fibre aggregation point about m , which then carries it back to the relevant backhaul. Openreach have pulled fibres for all of the OFNL properties, why not spend some time and do the rest of the villages?

In response to County Broadband, that came from themselves as BT when they last did work in this area, made the ducts go in a diagonal across the pavements, so that no one else could lay a duct in the pavement. Which is probably why NTL avoided the area as well. I wonder if this means Openreach will then begin to roll out FTTP in phases outwards from the exchange. So in order to bring the UK in line with other countries throughout Europe, network providers are adding thousands of homes to their network every month.

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