So, I live in a little village in Norfolk Called Roughton. Over the past week or 3, or 4, actually months. My family and i have been growing extremely annoyed about the shoddy, on and off internet. Yes that crappy copper stuff. I had done a little bit of research about registering a community partnership and thought i would post something on the local village FB group to drum up support. However, i thought i would do a bit of research about the availability in my area first as my address is down on the openreach site as "we have no plans to build in your area". i wanted to know what others were like. I took a couple of dozen address and postcodes in my area and now i am extremely confused.
The below red crosses mark as No plans, the Stars are available to order 1.6Gbps , and smiley faces "were building in the area". The villages green box cabinet is the Heart. I cannot fathom how the center of the village has missed out but the outskirts are all superfast BB available.
The cabinet is Fiber so we are FTTC, but i am confused as to how a little village hall (Top left smiley face) can expect availability soon. The top of the village (wash house, and other houses) have full speeds, but the houses near the center of the village have nothing at all.
I keep an eye out for updates and have seen the Openreach rollout map, but surely it cant be that someone has drawn a line from the east up to the north and then to the west of the village to completely miss the populated area. Where the stars are there are probably 10-15 houses. Chapel Road has 3-4 times that. So why turn those on and not the populated ones. Surely it would cost less to do more than less, if you know what i mean.
There isn't even anyone to talk to anymore. Back when fiber was being rolled out where i lived in Berkshire, i got a flyer through the door for virgin, called them up and was they said it wasn't planned, argued the case, spoke to a regional installs manager that people were laying cables and within a couple of months it was up. You cant even speak to anyone at all now, your reliant on a person looking at a map with hits for people interested superfast broadband.
So why is it like this, who can i speak to about it, query why my street cant, but someone a hundred meters down the road can.
