kirbyan
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Hey!BB have been building out their fiber network in High Wycombe. They've finally reached my part of town and I've been watching them with interest. A lot of the work seems to be installing boxes at the top of existing BT poles and pulling fibers under the pavement. There's been next to no digging that I can see. So it's quite exciting seeing this going on but Hey!BB have been very quiet and respond with "not available in your area" if you ask anything.
I have some questions and wonder if anyone has experience of Hey!BB to be able to answer them:
While the visible build seems to be focused on Poles, a number of properties, like mine, are served by underground cables. We can't see what they're doing underground, but where Hey!BB have previously deployed, do they only connect via poles, or underground too?
So if Hey!BB are putting their boxes on BT's poles, will other operators be able to use the network to provide service or is it only for Hey!BB. If other operators do the same thing they will quickly run out of space on the poles.
Does the arrival of Hey!BB mean that we'll go bottom of the list for openreach to deploy fibre?
So far the effect of Hey!BB arriving i the area seems to have been that the previously badly overloaded Virgin Media cable internet has really settled down and is humming along nicely with no peaks in latency or slowdown at peak times. Not sure if Virgin fixed anything, but they did tell me that due to Covid they we're not planning on upgrading any infrastructure in the next 12 months, which was what was needed.
I have some questions and wonder if anyone has experience of Hey!BB to be able to answer them:
While the visible build seems to be focused on Poles, a number of properties, like mine, are served by underground cables. We can't see what they're doing underground, but where Hey!BB have previously deployed, do they only connect via poles, or underground too?
So if Hey!BB are putting their boxes on BT's poles, will other operators be able to use the network to provide service or is it only for Hey!BB. If other operators do the same thing they will quickly run out of space on the poles.
Does the arrival of Hey!BB mean that we'll go bottom of the list for openreach to deploy fibre?
So far the effect of Hey!BB arriving i the area seems to have been that the previously badly overloaded Virgin Media cable internet has really settled down and is humming along nicely with no peaks in latency or slowdown at peak times. Not sure if Virgin fixed anything, but they did tell me that due to Covid they we're not planning on upgrading any infrastructure in the next 12 months, which was what was needed.