Every PON (passive optical network) has a boundary somewhere and some addresses may be outside it , so in some circumstances one neighbour has access and another one doesn’t , where the boundary is often isn’t obvious to the customer, so they think it’s wrong if a neighbour 20-30 metres away has access but they don’t …..plus some addresses are deliberately omitted from a build even though they are within the PON boundary due to those particular properties exceeding the per tenancy budget , as an example….an area generally served overhead by telegraph poles , those served directly from poles can get FTTP , at some point unusually 1970s through to the early 1990’s some new properties were built , and served from underground cables but not ducted , the cost per tenancy for these is much more than the property served from poles so are not included in the build plan , they are deferred and will be picked up at some future point .
Openreach are a business not immune from economic realities, if service from a pole costs £50-£100 per dwelling on average and areas with no poles and no duct cost on average £500-£600 per dwelling , if you were an accountant with Openreach where would you concentrate your resources ?
