Full Fibre upgrade in a flat

[iniltous]

Think our last posts may have ‘crossed’ , check if OR have relatively recently provided ‘block wiring’ outside your and your neighbours apartments within your MDU , usually this is a small block near each individual entrance door , if that has been done , everything including permits etc has already been done , you simply order service and the installation tech just runs the final few meters of optical cable from the block outside your door into the flat …..if there has been no preparation type work done like this , and  it makes you more comfortable then let the freeholder contact OR and don’t order FTTP yet .

[lozzyjayne]

There is this small white box above the front door to my apartment; is this what you're referring to? If so, I had been wondering what it was! 

Also the exact words the management company said to me were: "Please could you ask BT to contact us directly regarding permission. When we have had this request previously BT have carried out the fibre upgrade on the whole building rather than an individual apartment." So if Openreach have already installed this little white box and have gotten permission to do so, why would my management company still be telling me to get BT to ask them for permission?

[iniltous]

I can’t see your image yet , ( it takes a while before they allow them to be seen ) so this is speaking blindly to a certain extent, but if the photo is of the FTTP infrastructure box provided in advance by Openreach , enabling you to just order ( so permission was already sought , granted and the work took place by Openreach  ) I’d suggest your call to the freeholder has confused them , you effectively saying BT want permission , they don’t , ( they use Openreach ) and Openreach have already been granted permission and they have completed 95% of the work ( not the individual lead ins , the last 5% gets  done as and when the occupants order service )

In effect the only work left to do is within your ‘gift’ and in some respects is no different than you getting a new TV , you wouldn’t need to ask permission from the freeholder for that , you don’t need to ask permission for this either …it seems the only work left for Openreach to do is actually  a small task , hardly noticeable on the outside of your flat ,  effectively what’s left to do is  all done within your own boundary, so doesn’t need the freeholder advising further.

I can see how you may think that the freeholder needs to be involved but they don’t , all you need to do is order , when you are connected I doubt you will see any ‘new’ evidence of it outside your flat , that’s why the freeholder doesn’t need to be involved, all the work remaining is inside your flat and you give permission for that , not the freeholder.

[lozzyjayne]

I'm sorry you can't see the picture; that's strange. I'll try again: 


Okay, that makes sense. I will contact the management company again and tell them everything you have told me, and clarify what they want me to do, I think