Thank you that has answered my question about just breaking into the existing fibre line, I hadn’t realised each property has its own line back to the exchange, I just knew that had FTTH.
I said it was a long story short, but for further info on our situation. The village is Cocking in W Sussex, the bulk of the village had FTTH installed by BT as part of W Sussex ‘better connected’ project. It was on the basis that BT said it wasn’t commercially viable to connect the whole village (200 houses) but it was viable to connect our end of (70 houses) with FTTC even though they all join one another with no physical divide.
BT had submitted notification to the local Planning Authority with images and photos of the new green cabinet and placement etc, it seems more out of courtesy as it was allowed under permitted development anyway. At some point BT pulled out of connecting our end of the village apparently saying it was no longer viable (I smell a huge rat here, but thats something I’m taking up with the council).
To a Laymen as myself, none of it makes much sense as all the village phone lines come of the same cabinet about 1km away, why ddn’t the Council scheme and BT just put in a fibre cabinet and be done with, even if it topped out at 20Mps it’s infinitely better than the 1-3Mps we get now!
Sorry, bit of a rant!