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Exchanges where FTTP is turned on; does it cover 100% of properties?

valeyard11

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Hello, did some searching around and couldn't find any concrete answers.

My area is marked on the Openreach rollout map as coming between 2022 and 2024 for FTTP. My question is, does that mean I will be able to get it for sure or is there some properties which are not eligible? i.e. do all houses on an exchange have access to FTTP once the exchange is FTTP enabled?

For reference, I am currently able to get FTTC in theory (although there is a waitlist so not possible at the moment).
 
No, there will still be copper lines such as the exchange only and the too difficult to get to ones. As FTTP is rolled out and FTTC customers go to FTTP then the FTTC cabinets will get freed up.
 
Experience here is that FTTP came to to the exchange - where there is already FTTC - but they only seemed to have rolled it out to customer who couldn’t get FTTC or were struggling to get decent speeds on FTTC. They got ducts ready by me then stopped. Think might FTTPoD as an option?
 
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Experience here is that FTTP came to to the exchange - where there is already FTTC - but they only seemed to have rolled it out to customer who couldn’t get FTTC or were struggling to get decent speeds on FTTC. They got ducts ready by me then stopped. Think might FTTPoD as an option?
Yeah this is what it feels like is happening. Even before the waitlist, our FTTC speeds were like 20 down, which is in an awkward place of not being fast but also not being so slow to end up on any of their target lists.

I can see Openreach doing a lot of work in the next street over, and I have used the other checker with my postcode and the next street over postcode; mines says no plans yet for Ultrafast but next street says Ultrafast build underway. I am praying that the checker just isnt right, but seems like we might get skipped by.

We sit in a blackhole of telecom, no Cityfibre (although surounded by it), no Virgin, no altnets or Hyperoptic. Really crappy situation.
 
Yeah this is what it feels like is happening. Even before the waitlist, our FTTC speeds were like 20 down, which is in an awkward place of not being fast but also not being so slow to end up on any of their target lists.

I can see Openreach doing a lot of work in the next street over, and I have used the other checker with my postcode and the next street over postcode; mines says no plans yet for Ultrafast but next street says Ultrafast build underway. I am praying that the checker just isnt right, but seems like we might get skipped by.

We sit in a blackhole of telecom, no Cityfibre (although surounded by it), no Virgin, no altnets or Hyperoptic. Really crappy situation.
From looking at a couple of properties in my estate I think a couple of houses have FTTP. So I tried to chase this up with Openreach. Hoped it was a computer error / wrong data in databse - the properties with I think have a different post code but same estate. E.g. No. 36 vs 67. Cant remember exact reply from OR but took a while to come back, but said was not possible to get FTTP anytime soon.
 
I have a friend who lives in a former manor house that was converted into flats. Nice gardens but high service charge ;)

It's a bit set back from the road but not significantly, and is currently fed underground. Rest of the street has been cabled up and enabled for FTTP as has the whole exchange area which is now stop sell for copper where fibre exists.

If your property is in anyway "special" then you may get passed by until openreach have time to come back to deal with the awkward cases.
 
Openreach recently added CBTs to the poles in our area and they went live straight away, but for some reason have bypassed our street (for us it doesn't really matter as we get CityFibre anyway). The area is mainly Victorian terraced houses, served by conventional wooden poles, with no obvious reason why a particular street should be problematic.

My guess is that there wasn't any usable ducting or a line of sight path for an overhead cable and they decided it was uneconomic to do the necessary digging to get to the poles in our street. Whether/when they come back remains to be seen.
 
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