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Openreach cancelled our fibre

Isn2011

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So some of you may recognise me as a regular on here since early last year when I discovered openreach had intentions of rolling out fibre to us. Well what a rollercoaster I have been on of which starts all the way back to November 2018, when my village decided to look into the openreach community fibre, we submitted a list of properties that were interested over to the community fibre team and then in February 2019, received our first quote for 73 properties coming to a figure of around £152k. This price was before any government vouchers etc. Further correspondence in November 2019 was received to further confirm the list before the final costing could be performed. It wasn’t until January 2020, that the community fibre team informed us that the majority of the properties had been removed from the quote because openreach were in the planning stages of rolling out fibre as part of their national rollout, because of this the village were forced to withdraw from the community fibre as openreach were planning on doing the upgrade already. At this point I checked the fibre checker and sure enough it stated fibre was coming soon and also contacted them myself confirming fibre would come by 2021. Over time I kept checking the checker and it updated to say we are now building the network in your area but no sign of anything apart from a few new telegraph poles. Move forward to two weeks ago after contacting them about when they expect the work to be completed, I get told that work has been cancelled due to the complex nature of the network, as I am sure you can understand I am somewhat annoyed and disappointed with this news. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? In some ways I feel openreach see us as a small and insignificant village, we don’t even have our own exchange, our nearest one is 2 miles away. I would understand if we were in the highlands or something but we are in the middle of Lincolnshire.
Has anyone got any advice?
 
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Interesting read. Did you ever get a resolution for your situation?
Nope. Nothing, nada, zilch.

A local ISP did express some interest in rolling out FTTP but that's gone very quiet.
 
Nope. Nothing, nada, zilch.

A local ISP did express some interest in rolling out FTTP but that's gone very quiet.
Sounds about right, I have actually contacted my local MP as they are going on about putting pressure on openreach to deliver but I can’t see openreach listening to any pressure I put on now.
 
Sounds about right, I have actually contacted my local MP as they are going on about putting pressure on openreach to deliver but I can’t see openreach listening to any pressure I put on now.

Did that and even contacted the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport who wrote me a very lengthy letter back but it was essentially a long way of saying thanks, but nothing we can do.

I can sympathise and empathise with your frustration. In my case, I can lean forward right now across my desk (home office) and see houses 50 yards away on the same road that have access to FTTP but the majority of the development don't and won't anytime soon.

What are your other options? In my/our case we're lucky to get 30Mbps VDSL with the wind in the right direction standing on one leg, no VM/DOCSIS presence and we're in something of a 4G/LTE/5G blackspot.
 
Did that and even contacted the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport who wrote me a very lengthy letter back but it was essentially a long way of saying thanks, but nothing we can do.

I can sympathise and empathise with your frustration. In my case, I can lean forward right now across my desk (home office) and see houses 50 yards away on the same road that have access to FTTP but the majority of the development don't and won't anytime soon.

What are your other options? In my/our case we're lucky to get 30Mbps VDSL with the wind in the right direction standing on one leg, no VM/DOCSIS presence and we're in something of a 4G/LTE/5G blackspot.
Interesting I hadn’t thought about contacting DCMS but by the sounds of it there isn’t much point doing so.
I can imagine it is rather frustrating seeing other houses not so far away with FTTP for me another village around 2 miles away of which is even more remote and smaller than my village has had FTTP for well over a year.
For us we have FTTC although it’s hardly worth it still only providing at max 7Mbps. No VM here and an unreliable 4G connection. Even tried looking into USO but according to BT(our ISP) we get atleast 10Mbps already of which is not true and so aren’t eligible for USO.
 
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Looks like we've both been let down, and to some degree mislead, by Openreach.

I've contemplated Starlink but I'm not ready to go with that option just yet.
 
A lot of this can also stem from the difference between Openreach's early modelling (akin to desktop surveys based on historic knowledge of the network) and their later pre-deployment engineering surveys, which may turn up problems and can result in some areas dropping out of their rollout plan (although other areas may get added).

Openreach has only really started to firm up their national rollout strategy in the past few months, so up to this point their prior plans have been very tentative (subject to change). Sadly, this is often the way of things with big builds. Inevitably, some communities get left to suffer the impact from broken promises.
 
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