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Isn2011

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Hi all

this is my first time posting on here. This all started when my village decided to start looking into the OR CFP. We were at the stage of having a quote for and the list of properties that were to benefit. Then around January/February a revised quote was issued with a revised list of properties. This revised list removed the street I live on along with one other.

I contacted the CFB team to ask why and was informed that we had been removed because OR have plans in place already to provide us with FTTP. I go and check OR and low and behold they have updated to say FTTP is coming soon. The CFB team advised to contact the fibre team after around 2 months so I did and was advised would go live by Dec 2020.

My concern is still there has been no activity from what I have seen in my village and OR still shows as coming soon. I have since also contacted OR again to again be told Dec 2020 is when it will be available to order. Is it a case I shouldn’t be worried and just wait for the vans to roll in? Just to give an idea there is around 60 properties included in this rollout.
 
I'm in a rural area in Scotland that suffered from poor broadband. We started community schemes to put in place faster broadband and after many months of discussion the scheme got cancleed because along came the Scottish Governments R100 scheme which made lots of promises but we never saw any action.

Years later on the Open Reach Fibre checker site we were listed as 'Coming Soon' for many months may be more than a year. Then one day vans turned up and started pulling fibre through the area. Months later we found out we could order. No notification from BT that we could, just someone checking and being suprised that we could now order. Well some of us could but others were missing from the database despite having the fibre outside their house.

Ordering from BT was a right mess (insert stronger word ending in UP if you wish). Dates promised for go live being unrealistic and then moved without any notification. I made my order on June 15th with go live on July 1st - dream on because a survey has to be done first, then ducting run to my house, then fibre pulled through, then connecton made, then hopefully BT will connect it all up and it might work. In total about 7 engineers came along at various different times.

In between all this dates moved around as much as our current BB speed went up and down. At one point my current ISP was told I was leaving but only for the landline. BT would take over but the fibre BB connection would be three months away. Then my current ISP welcomed me back and this is where it gets interesting and I hope I don't shoot myself in the foot.

Eventually we went live with the fibre BB from BT about three weeks ago and its great - what's even better is that BT don't know that its working and I'm not actually paying for it - yet. I called them and got a seemingly shirty text message saying no need to call any more as we are sorting it out and your order will be complete on Aug 6th. Here we are on Aug 18th still using the BB and I've had no notification from BT that my order is complete. In fact I have both their Fibre BB and my old ISP still running on the copper wire. Landline still with my old ISP.

There are other horror stories from my neighbours especially about the install costs which have put some folks off from taking it up.

Be aware that BT and Openreach don't really talk to each other.

Good luck.
 
I am certainly hoping that once the work starts in the village it will be plain sailing but I guess anything could happen!
 
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If their working from the telegraph poles it was very fast sailing for them
they just have to dig some underground duct and then they show up again between 4-12 weeks with the install

openreach when they arrived had 4 fibre reels and put them on all 4 poles through our street
and fed them from underground duct. work took around 4-5 hours for them to finish those 4 poles.

After this they did pop up every day for around 4 days just to screw in the metal caps on the pole and to check to see if the service was ok?

But we got enabled after 7 days.
 
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