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Newbuild

Hi I am moving in to a newbuild property, my house and next door are the only newbuild on the street the other houses have been there for 30+ years, there’s a BT pole just outside the house. I registered the address with Royal Mail last week and phoned BT today, they said they can only guarantee speed of up to 10 which isn’t ideal when me and my partner both work from home. They said if I take out a package with regular broadband they could then look in to upgrading to fibre, is this something that can be done straight away? The other houses next door get fibre so shouldn’t be an issue. I called back and a different agent said they would fill in a form for open reach to update the data base because it’s a new build it may just not show the full packages available to me until it shows on the system. Anyone else had this issue? Just don’t want to have to order internet and get it then find I can’t upgrade, or am I better waiting to see what openreach say? 

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Re: Newbuild

@Smyth10 

Did the developer of the New Build register their site with Openreach before they started building work?

That would have enabled the infrastructure to be installed during the build process.

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Re: Newbuild

Not too sure- don’t think so. It’s just 2 houses on a street that’s been there for years. Is this something that can be done now? Or is this what they were doing when they said they filled out form on phone for openreach to update the database? Thanks 

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Re: Newbuild

It sounds as though although ‘new build’ , your property is also an ‘in fill’ , in that it’s been built in a vacant plot ( or a site were an existing property was demolished and ‘new’ buildings erected ),so although ‘new build’ , the usual ‘new build’ policy of Openreach doesn’t really apply, the main factor on what speed broadband service you would likely get is what is available to the adjacent more established property’s.

If you enter your nearest established property’s details into the wholesale checker , that should give a reasonable indication of what you are likely to get, if the area is served by telegraph poles then service should be straight forward , if the other property’s are served by underground ducts, then what the builder/developers has done may determine how quickly ( or slowly) service is available, as if it’s underground and the builder hasn’t provided duct to the curtilage then a delay is inevitable.

10Mb is a speed that could be delivered by exchange based ADSL2 or ‘fibre’ FTTC if the distance to the cab was relatively long....although the fibre to the premises network is getting larger all the time , it’s still likely that it’s not going to be available to you or your more established neighbours  , checking what the neighbours can get will show if FTTP is available, but if 10Mb is the ADSL speed for your general area, and the representative didn’t want to ‘offer’ more than that in case it were the best on offer, perhaps better speed may be available from FTTC.

Posting a near neighbours  results from the wholesale checker ( one that is served from the pole nearest to you that will also serve you ) that will show what you will likely get once your address is able to order service.

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

 

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Re: Newbuild

Neighbours all get fibre and higher speeds it’s just these 2 new houses they can’t guarantee speed- don’t know if this is just due to it not being registered with open reach data base? As can’t see how next door can get different internet than I do. Hoping it’s a quick fix! 

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Re: Newbuild

As it's a new build there won't have been services there before so the systems won't know what speeds are available. If a line (at least) is installed the systems should update once in pkace

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Re: Newbuild

Ok so should I get the regular bb installed first? Then try upgrade as they said? Just never done it before so didn’t no 

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Re: Newbuild


@Smyth10 wrote:

Ok so should I get the regular bb installed first? Then try upgrade as they said? Just never done it before so didn’t no 


Its the phone line connection which Openreach need to build on their database, once a routing has been created.

Once the phone number that BT Retail have allocated to you, has been updated on the Openreach database, then you will have a better idea of what is available.

If you have placed an order for standard broadband, then you can upgrade at any time, provided that a faster connection is available.

 

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