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FTTP is coming to my house, but when ...? (Community Fibre)

RedTomato

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To my great pleasure, I got a postal letter a few days ago saying Community Fibre are building out to my area (Brent, London) and will be available "soon" offering their 1gig and 3 gig symmetrical packages.

Checking my postcode on Community Fibre's website says "A few months". I'm aware their current building project is a 3-year plan, so "A few months" could be any time up to 2023.

Is there anywhere I can track their building progress / progress of fibre works in my area?

Thanks in advance, Tom
 
Hmm you could try looking on one.network, but they don't pick-up all of the smaller builds. Otherwise it's probably best to keep trying the availability checker on Openreach's website as this will tell you when it's actually live.
 
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Hmm you could try looking on one.network, but they don't pick-up all of the smaller builds. Otherwise it's probably best to keep trying the availability checker on Openreach's website as this will tell you when it's actually live.
Many thanks Mark, one.network is exactly what I was looking for. I've now signed up for an account with them.

One.network shows a huge amount of Community Fibre activity a couple of streets over from me. Unfortunately this is across a railway, in the next borough (Harrow) with a different exchange (Kenton Road - LWKROA). I've seen Kenton Road listed in several FTTP rollout announcements so this is no surprise.

Maybe our streets received the letter in error as we're quite near.

Haven't seen my own exchange (North Wembley - LWNWEM) in any FTTP announcements, and one.network shows no Community Fibre activity planned in my area in the next 12 months.

Will check again in April as looking carefully at the one.network site, seems Community Fibre makes a new tranche of applications each 3 months.

Thanks again Mark.
 
Digging more deeply, I found North Wembley was listed as a future G.fast exchange in 2018 - this is the mid-speed broadband rollout proposal that was abruptly terminated about a year later in favour of FTTP.

It appears that FTTP rollout is deliberately avoided in G.fast exchanges to avoid overbuild - quite understandably. I don't know if North Wembley actually has G.fast (and I'm too far from the exchange to benefit from it anyway).

Looks like I will have to wait patiently for FTTP to come here. Sorry for all the details, you've probably gone to sleep now.
 
Digging more deeply, I found North Wembley was listed as a future G.fast exchange in 2018 - this is the mid-speed broadband rollout proposal that was abruptly terminated about a year later in favour of FTTP.

It appears that FTTP rollout is deliberately avoided in G.fast exchanges to avoid overbuild - quite understandably. I don't know if North Wembley actually has G.fast (and I'm too far from the exchange to benefit from it anyway).

Looks like I will have to wait patiently for FTTP to come here. Sorry for all the details, you've probably gone to sleep now.

I'm in a GFast area. We're also on the FTTP rollout list from Sept 2020 although nothing has been built yet. So it's not impossible to have both.
 
To my great pleasure, I got a postal letter a few days ago saying Community Fibre are building out to my area (Brent, London) and will be available "soon" offering their 1gig and 3 gig symmetrical packages.

Checking my postcode on Community Fibre's website says "A few months". I'm aware their current building project is a 3-year plan, so "A few months" could be any time up to 2023.

Is there anywhere I can track their building progress / progress of fibre works in my area?

Thanks in advance, Tom
Are you now able to receive FTTP ?
 
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To my great pleasure, I got a postal letter a few days ago saying Community Fibre are building out to my area (Brent, London) and will be available "soon" offering their 1gig and 3 gig symmetrical packages.

Checking my postcode on Community Fibre's website says "A few months". I'm aware their current building project is a 3-year plan, so "A few months" could be any time up to 2023.

Is there anywhere I can track their building progress / progress of fibre works in my area?

Thanks in advance, Tom
The postcode checker is defaulted I've put in 5 diffident post cods with the same results. Use one network but TFL road works is more accurate I have found. New work orders go in weekly Monday/Tuesdays and if you see any engineers working talk to them I found the best result because not unless you have someone on the inside telling you what's happening you wont find out much.
 
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