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No fibre except for Trooli

So, short backstory:
I live on a shared premises as rent is incredibly high in my area; however it's fairly essential I have a line to myself as I do a lot of self-hosting along with security requirements from work.

I am currently stuck on a 64/20 VDSL line, of which I can rarely hit above 40/10 due to how far I am from the cabinet; I am in no way complaining about my current ISP (IDNet) as they have been incredible with support and allow a lot of things that most other ISPs don't support (ASN peering, Reverse DNS on ISP-provided IPs, static IP by default, etc) and have tried their hardest to get me the fastest and most stable network possible (cheers Brian).
This is painfully slow for what I host (for reference: my internal network is set up with 100gbit)

Now, I was incredibly happy to see that a couple of months ago, my road was being supplied with fibre!
My upstairs-neighbour let me know he was getting fibre installed the other day, as I work from home and don't mind helping out where I can.

Time for the complaining....
It turns out, the only provider that will supply my road is Trooli. My address doesn't even show as having fibre available on the Openreach wholesale page! (image: btwholesale.com)
Annoyingly, they only allow 1 line per property and flat-out refuse to install any other lines even business connections.

Is their any way around this?
 
Trooli deploy their own fibre, they do not use OpenReach fibre infrastructure.

Have you tried looking on bidb.uk in case there are any other fibre providers in your street. Also go look outside for the names on any infrastructure on poles or chambers in the highway.

Coming back to your original question, has the property where you live been properly subdivided, does the unit where you live have a separate UPRN (unique property reference number) to the neighbour who has got Trooli installed? If there is only a single UPRN (using the address checker on the BT Wholesale site discloses all the UPRNs) for the entire property then this is what the Trooli fibre network planners will have used to guide them for the number of ports they required in your street. Whilst there are no doubt spare ports for premises that have not taken up any active service yet and they could use one of those to give you your own connection they are just kicking the problem of not enough ports down the road. Whilst it doesn't really help you, Trooli have no obligation to provide you a service, only OpenReach do. Trooli can make their own rules, it's their network, and their decisions. But you would hope they could have some flexibility and maximise their revenue!

If it's a shared property, perhaps its worth working out if you could share the fibre connection, if you're doing your own 100Gbit internal networking you could no doubt do the necessary to fully segment traffic?
 
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