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The rest of the village where I live is served by poles, these have all been kitted out (one every few weeks) for FTTP for a go-live date of May I believe.
Is there any way to find out if the one road/estate without poles is going to be left out or included ? It is direct buried cable fed.
I have had the usual waffle from O.R. "good news, the equipment you are connected to is being upgraded....." but not a yes or no answer to the question is this road being upgraded. Nothing showing on one.network.
Has anyone had a similar scenario ?
I'd be a bit envious if this road/estate is left out as I suspect it will be, but the not knowing one way or the other is frustrating.
 
Keeping an eye on Openreach FTTP deployments can be pretty tricky and I don't think you'll get a good answer for this. PIA work schedules are not public knowledge (I have tried asking for it), they mostly won't show up on one.network.

For what it's worth, if we're talking about 1 street in an estate that's served by ducts, I find it unlikely they'll miss you out for that specific reason. My street is 50-50 ducts and poles, they serviced the houses in order, regardless of the deploy type. Remember the poles are served by ducts too, the work isn't that much different.

Your best bet may be just to ask an engineer if you spot them setting up one of the other streets.
 
Sadly no ducts, they dug a trench dropped a cable in and buried it. It is one street name and is a no through road which meanders about with cul de sacs off of it making it a small estate rather than just a road. I did speak to an engineer and whilst not having specific knowledge of it as they tend to get one job at a time he did say that he had seen this type of installation get left out.
If it gets left out and somebody ordered FOD would subsequent orders be FOD only as even if fibre was in the street passing your property it would still mean trenching from a junction to get to your property ?
 
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Any FOD would probably attract any ducting/civils cost which unless combined with other budgets would be premise specific.

If the wider area is to be OR FTTP then it may be picked up in a later phase when it suits OR regarding copper recovery which could be 2/3 years away.
 
Yes, part of a wider area. We will be a tiny Island of FTTC only in a sea of FTTP availability.
 
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The rest of the village can now order FTTP and I have a reply confirming the road I live in is D.I.G. supplied and not "in plan".
Does Openreach have a policy on returning to patches skipped over for FTTP install ?
 
Do you and your neighbours own all the land the D.I.G. will go over. If so I would be looking at getting your own ducting installed as per a new housing estate with you all jointly acting as the developer. For any land not covered by your freeholds or any one not willing to join then a wayleave is required which complicates things.
 
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Do you and your neighbours own all the land the D.I.G. will go over. If so I would be looking at getting your own ducting installed as per a new housing estate with you all jointly acting as the developer. For any land not covered by your freeholds or any one not willing to join then a wayleave is required which complicates things.
If you’re going to the trouble of trenching etc. I’d chuck in another parallel duct run. You never know when an AltNet might decide it’s worth their while or even VM02 if their J.V using XGS-PON FTTP expansion plans gets a toe hold.
 
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As predicted we have been left out. I can see from my window houses that can get FTTP and poles they connect to - but way too far away. What a tease.
The good news we are in plan to be upgraded like the rest of the village has been already.
The bad news - in 2026 :(

(Meatball was close in his estimate it turns out)
 
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