My son recently moved to South Wales to start a much needed small business, his current internet connection is 1 Mb/s !, not a lot and useless for any type of video conferencing, but no problem, the Openreach checking site said "Good news – we’ll be upgrading your area to Full Fibre (Fibre to the Premises - FTTP) soon."
He lives in Nevern, Pembrokeshire and his nearest exchange is Newport, and is listed as “exchange only”
He has registered on the site, as have several of his neighbours, who like him are desperate for the faster speeds that FTTP brings.
In an effort to progress and hopefully speed up provision he wrote to Openreach for the latest situation, he was told that the date for provision is October 2021 and may be later, in my book, soon, is at most, a few months not nearly 2 years, what is happening? Is there any way the provision time can be reduced to a reasonable timescale? The run is overhead following the existing copper cable, and as such, not a very complicated run.
He already has paid for trees to be trimmed in preparation for the new fibre.
From a local source, a fibre cable from Newport to a Nevern pub car park exists, but is not connected
As an aside, one of his local neighbours spotted an Openreach man, who said he was surveying for new posts to carry the fibre.
As you can see the arrival of a fibre is a much awaited, local, talking point.
