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Full Fibre Avalability

Bodgeit1 — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:28:56 GMT

My village is served via the Hartford Exchange in Cheshire and that is Full Fiber enabled, half of my village is now receiving full fiber but the other half isn't, why would that be at CW8 4, i cant get any response from BT or Openreach, my current fiber/copper connection id overhead so not sure why they have stopped the build out as there are other areas of the village not served that use underground cabling, complete mystery

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:42:07 GMT

@Bodgeit1

Use the address checker on the page below, and post the results, but edit out your address details first.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL

You may also find this link helpful https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm?xid=124204&cabinets=12366

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Bodgeit1 — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:01:36 GMT

says Hartford exchange served by cabinet 23

not sure what the chart tells me though?

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

36ULW — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:04:30 GMT

It’s possible they’re still in Build Phase and just haven’t got round to your part of Town yet.

As soon as a PON is Built Openreach will Commission it almost immediately, they’ll not wait for an entire Exchange Area to be built first.

It’s like a New Build Housing Development. They don’t wait to build every house before selling them and moving the residents all in at once.

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:06:40 GMT

@Bodgeit1

Just a fast VDSL connection available, so you must be very close to the cabinet.

I would imagine that Openreach are not going to treat that as a priority for FTTP.

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Bodgeit1 — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:39:40 GMT

thanks for the help

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

36ULW — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:03:00 GMT

Proximity to an FTTC Enabled PCP for either just VDSL or even G.Fast has absolutely no bearing on when or where Openreach will deploy FTTP.

Literally all Openreach care about is hitting the Highest THP Figures at the Cheapest possible cost.

In fact those with slower FTTC or even ADSL Speeds don’t even factor into it when it comes to Planning.

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Colin_London — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:17:07 GMT

The fact Openreach decide to install in one part of a village is no guarantee that they will install in the other. It’s all done on a house by house basis and what is going to maximise returns.

Sometimes they will install in one area, then go away and return 18 months later to do some more…

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Bodgeit1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:41:26 GMT

if i'm on the same cabinet number as someone with 1gb would that get me access or is that too easy to assume?

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

imjolly — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:47:08 GMT

fibre FTTP does not come from the street cabinet so being on same cabine means nothing

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

iniltous — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:01:10 GMT

Every PON area has a boundary somewhere, occasionally a boundary will be where next door neighbours can be either side of it , so one neighbour can order and the other one can’t , there is also the possibility that your telegraph pole is currently served via a buried armoured cable , and hasn’t got a way to be served overhead from another telegraph pole , if the costs to get FTTP onto your pole , by excavation to provide a ducted feed , or extra poles were needed , and that made the cost per dwelling over the allowed budget , they can simply omit that pole from the build , for it to be picked up at a later stage, that may be months or years away though .

Re: Full Fibre Avalability

Bodgeit1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:11:03 GMT

typical Virgin have just enabled their full fiber literally 2 months after i had to sign my new BT contract so trapped otherwise could have moved over to them and got 140mb for the same price as BT