Fibre Bermuda Triangle.

DwaynePipes — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:44:01 GMT

Hi,

Over a year ago Openreach were working directly in front of my property. Upon asking the workers they told me that they were linking the village just a mile up the road from me and all of the properties on that road, to the fibre network.

Great I thought I can get decent broadband at last, I was excited especially when I was given a form to complete showing my willingness to be connected.

Several months later the village and all of the properties on that road now indeed have access to FTTP.

...but not me!

I'm live in Scotland and we have a grant scheme to help rural properties get some kind of internet improvement where normal options are not available.

Upon contacting one company who can provide solutions to see if they could help solve the issue, they eventually figured out that as I am not within 150m of the nearest telephone pole then accessing that new cable is not an option... I'm goosed, every property around me, but not me, now gets fibre!

After all that, my question...is there a possibility that I can somehow get someone tap into that cable?

Even if it means putting in a new pole for example?

(I'm currently on the end of a part aluminium line getting 10 Mbps at best)

Re: Fibre Bermuda Triangle.

imjolly — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:53:03 GMT

have you tried writing to openreach?

https://www.openreach.com/forms/fibre-broadband-availability---customer-form

Re: Fibre Bermuda Triangle.

DwaynePipes — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:12:33 GMT

I have contacted them in the past.

I got what looks like a generic response i.e.

Please look the Scottish government broadband checker

Please contact FTTP providers.

I've done that but all they do is look at the postcode checker for my address and then tell me that fibre is not available at my address...d'oh!

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