sbaggs
Pro Member
We live in a smallish village (pop ~1,300) and internet is via FTTC, with varying performance depending on where your nearest cabinet is (ours is over the road, so we get 75Mb/s
). Truespeed have been promising FTTP "soon" for about three years, and some nearby villages have the service now, but there has been no progress here at all. I'm a bit wary of Truespeed anyway because of their poilcy of locking down the router with no bridge mode allowed; but I assumed that since we're on their list of places to be done, Openreach wouldn't be investing in our village.
Today a couple of Openreach chaps were pumping out ducting outside our house, so naturally I went to have a chat. I was delighted to hear that their task was to make sure the ducts weren't blocked and to remove any redundant cable, to make way for fibre. They were clear that this was for service in the village - they pointed out where the fibre would be run up the poles, and explained that houses would then be served by a combined fibre/copper line so that the old and new technology would both work during the transition to fibre. As far as I am concerned this is excellent news.
I realise there is still a long way to go before we might see OR-based FTTP appearing, but how confident should I be that it will actually happen? If Truespeed finally turn up now, I'd happily decline their service and wait for OR fibre to be installed, but how likely is it that OR would drop out if Truespeed finally turn up in the village? Is it likely OR would be going to the trouble of clearing the ducts if they weren't certain they were going to give us fibre? Any ideas appreciated - my fingers are crossed!
Today a couple of Openreach chaps were pumping out ducting outside our house, so naturally I went to have a chat. I was delighted to hear that their task was to make sure the ducts weren't blocked and to remove any redundant cable, to make way for fibre. They were clear that this was for service in the village - they pointed out where the fibre would be run up the poles, and explained that houses would then be served by a combined fibre/copper line so that the old and new technology would both work during the transition to fibre. As far as I am concerned this is excellent news.
I realise there is still a long way to go before we might see OR-based FTTP appearing, but how confident should I be that it will actually happen? If Truespeed finally turn up now, I'd happily decline their service and wait for OR fibre to be installed, but how likely is it that OR would drop out if Truespeed finally turn up in the village? Is it likely OR would be going to the trouble of clearing the ducts if they weren't certain they were going to give us fibre? Any ideas appreciated - my fingers are crossed!























