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FTTP Question

jwatson2323 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:00:28 GMT

Hi all.

I am due to move house in the next 1-2 months or so. We are moving from a FTTP property to a FTTC one (pain)

The village I am moving to all has overhead poles feeding their properties other than the road I am moving to (which contains approx 50 houses). These are all buried in ground cabling (confirmed by query to open reach).

When the village finally does get FTTP - am I going to be completely out of luck with ever getting it to my house due to having no overhead poles down my road?

The reason I ask is I may then go down the starlink route if there is no solution to how the house is supplied.

Thanks!

Re: FTTP Question

pippincp — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:19:36 GMT

Just because a property is supplied DIG (direct in ground) does not rule out FTTP being supplied.

Re: FTTP Question

jwatson2323 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:12 GMT

Ok great - out of interest what are potential work arounds for this? I note the nearest pole is around 100-150 metres away.

Re: FTTP Question

licquorice — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:11:38 GMT

Up to Openreach, but they will either provide the necessary poles or ducting, depending on cost/feasibility.

Impossible for anyone here to give a definitive answer.

Re: FTTP Question

iniltous — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:33:16 GMT

In the short term , should the overall area get FTTP , then the overhead addresses may well get FTTP much sooner than the DIG area addresses , even though they are ‘neighbouring’ addresses, currently OR are prioritising addresses that will have a relatively small ‘build’ cost per dwelling.

To give an indication of the current OR policy , ( these are not real costings ) , if a pole serves 10 addresses and to get a FTTP CBT onto that pole will cost £200, because the infrastructure already exists, that’s clearly £20 per dwelling , and well within the allowed budget, if a neighbouring 10 addresses are within the DIG area , and that would require £6000 worth of construction ( new ducts , joinboxes etc ) then the £600 cost per dwelling is massively over budget, that’s assuming the provision of poles in this area would be unacceptable to the locals .

If it were your money , and you had £6k to spend , do you enable 300 homes overhead or 10 homes with new underground infrastructure ?

Those out of budget addresses are ‘parked’ to be reviewed at some later date once the easy/cheap properties are mainly done and FTTP is earning sufficient revenue to fund more expensive areas ….if it were your business, wouldn’t you approach it in the same way ?

Re: FTTP Question

36ULW — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:17:39 GMT

When Openreach build PON’s for an area the Build Team are given a budget for the total THP. That’s Total Homes Passed.

Usually it’s around £100 for each home/business. Figures vary a lot though so it’s difficult to say exactly how much.

They tend to leave D.I.G Sites to last and if they can bring the other PON’s in under budget they then may also do the D.I.G Site(s).