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Cityfibre build times?

The claim that blocks of postcodes go live at the same time is correct. They put all premises on a single PN live at the same time.

They seem a complete mess tbh, and trying to get dates out of them is impossible. Openreach give estimated dates.
Fibre deployments are slow. That's all. Remember that they also contract out work to different companies throughout the country, so the experience someone has in one area may not reflect what happens where you are.

From my experience, Openreach is a billion times more opaque with this information...

Lots of providers dislike giving out estimates. I don't like it too but understand why. I have found accurate estimates from Cityfibre though, if you want to PM me an address I'll let you know the state and if there's an eta.
 
For what little it's worth, I've seen a couple areas in Edinburgh go live this year (to being able to order with an ISP, namely Vodafone). I don't know the exact dates, but it felt like between one and three months, after the dig finished in the area.

That said, it's not always clear where the area is, when there's adjacent builds... And it's obviously it's longer from the beginning of the dig.
 
The claim that blocks of postcodes go live at the same time is correct. They put all premises on a single PN live at the same time.


Fibre deployments are slow. That's all. Remember that they also contract out work to different companies throughout the country, so the experience someone has in one area may not reflect what happens where you are.

From my experience, Openreach is a billion times more opaque with this information...

Lots of providers dislike giving out estimates. I don't like it too but understand why. I have found accurate estimates from Cityfibre though, if you want to PM me an address I'll let you know the state and if there's an eta.
How do you see an eta?
 
Got more info after a lot of pushing, no more activations in entire city for at least 9 months.
 
Is this others experience?

I am in Newcastle and yes this is 100% my experience. It took 7 months to almost the day after they laid the cables in my street to go live and be orderable (and that was only from one provider - TalkTalk).

In this time they repeatedly came back to my street and I was getting my hopes up from it each time. I was speaking to Zen who had 3 separate GoLive dates and all three came and went.

I kept checking CityFibres website once a day, every day. And then suddenly Christmas eve was when it went live out of the blue so ordered it the same day.

The road around the corner to me. They laid the cables to that street in the end of January and its still not live and orderable there. So it seems I may have been lucky in that 7 months as its been 9 months and counting for them.

But what I will say, we have TalkTalk now knocking on our doors quite literally once every 2/3 days trying to get us to sign up with them even though I have the brown Cityfibre box easily viewable right infront of my door. They still knock. They were knocking last night at 5.30pm in the dark. I thought it was trick or treaters. The last knocked Friday before that. I keep answering the door telling them I have it already and they still keep coming back. So just get ready for that when it goes live.
 
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