Some Edinburgh Guy
Pro Member
Have openreach decided to jack in the idea of updating their full fibre rollout checker on a regular basis? Last update was the one where they changed the map in May, and apart from a couple of news posts for some areas in the intervening period [almost all locations in England], nothing whatsoever has been updated on it. This is despite the extensive build happening across Scotland for R100%, and several areas now have full fibre, which is not being reported whatsoever by Openreach, even in news posts or map updates.
To put that into some local context for me: Exchanges like that of Fairmilehead have been largely built in over the last couple of months [thanks to both the road works commissioner website and thinkbroadbands’ interactive maps showing plenty of openreach fttp in the area compared to May], but the map still says “we’re building here soon”. Dalkeith still shows “we’re building in this area”, but pretty much everywhere in the exchange area now has Openreach FTTP, barring maybe a small number of isolated streets and such, but that would qualify as “has now been built to most locations”
Its reached the point where they might as well not have a checker if they’re not even going to do “regular updates throughout the year” as they promised. Incredibly annoying: i get they don’t want to reveal their plans, but if they’re going to reveal anything, they might as well do it properly [even if its just like a monthly or two-monthly update], rather than half-assing it and benefiting few people.
I don’t expect exact dates for a rollout, not at all. But the least i’d expect is… communication of any kind, even if its just “openreach are about to start work on building a new full fibre network in <my_exchange_name_here>” with the usual copypasta texts.
To put that into some local context for me: Exchanges like that of Fairmilehead have been largely built in over the last couple of months [thanks to both the road works commissioner website and thinkbroadbands’ interactive maps showing plenty of openreach fttp in the area compared to May], but the map still says “we’re building here soon”. Dalkeith still shows “we’re building in this area”, but pretty much everywhere in the exchange area now has Openreach FTTP, barring maybe a small number of isolated streets and such, but that would qualify as “has now been built to most locations”
Its reached the point where they might as well not have a checker if they’re not even going to do “regular updates throughout the year” as they promised. Incredibly annoying: i get they don’t want to reveal their plans, but if they’re going to reveal anything, they might as well do it properly [even if its just like a monthly or two-monthly update], rather than half-assing it and benefiting few people.
I don’t expect exact dates for a rollout, not at all. But the least i’d expect is… communication of any kind, even if its just “openreach are about to start work on building a new full fibre network in <my_exchange_name_here>” with the usual copypasta texts.























