Who were these lads exactly? Never heard of BT doing door-to-door selling directly - were they in fact freelance agents making commission from trying to get people to switch supplier?
As well as the fact fibre is not coming anytime soon, you will be annoyed on additional two fronts I imagine:
1) Vodafone sell full fibre services over Openreach fibre. You didn't have to switch supplier to get fibre when it became available.
2) Full fibre services often work out cheaper than connections over copper cable; don't assume they will be the same cost or more expensive.
I think you need to look carefully at any paperwork you were given to work out who these people were exactly, and maybe contact the Direct Sellers Association (on the off chance they work for a company that is part of that organisation).
I had two visits from OR guys saying that they’d finished doing the ground work and that Full Fibre was now available from my local exchange, the only thing they were too late as I’d already seen them digging the trenches for the full fibre cabling.
So I was able to explain to them on both occasions that I’d already made the switch.
I think if you see them digging trenches for the cabling, then check the OR website again, or wait until they pop round.
Because around my way, they worked on a Sunday.
You do realise this is quite an old thread?
In practical terms, I think it’s guesswork and wait and see.
I’ve had an interest registered with OR for a couple of years now. Their checker continued to say ‘building sometime between now and December 2026’ right up until last week when an email turned up, out of the blue, saying it’s now available.
While I suspected Bidb, (Better Internet Dashboard, bidb.uk), was showing signs of the backbone being put in around the town over the past 6 months, I’ve seen nothing on this estate.