Isn2011
Pro Member
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?
Has anyone got any advice?























