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Rollout timelines

Finally got around to doing this, for the longest time I was searching in Sources rather than Filtering in Network 🙃

Here's the response from BIDB below (removed my address):

"BuildStatus": "4-Plan Done",
"IsBDUK": "false",
"NetomniaSalesStatus": "RI_INPLANNING_EX_INBUILD",
"Providers": "Netomnia",
"SalesStatus": "REGISTER_INTEREST",
"exp": 1711969489,
"iat": 1711965889

Noticed a couple of days ago that a new Netomnia manhole has appeared at the end of my street (the one which connects on to the main road) but nothing appeared on BIDB or Mast Database (strange?!)
How do you get this information from BIDB?
 
I've got Netomnia starting works for two days up the top of my road tomorrow. Went on YouFibre chat this morning, told them and asked for a lead time (my virgin contract expires next month) and they told me they hope to have the street up and running by July!

I live in hope!
 
Good Luck @Buggerlugz ! In my street they installed cables in 2021, still expecting happy days...
 
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Good Luck @Buggerlugz ! In my street they installed cables in 2021, still expecting happy days...
My recent communication with youfibre completely contradicts the webchat from the other week...

"Thank you for getting in touch.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to give an estimated timetable on when we'll be in your region, as this can take months or years."


where's that head slapping "naked gun" meme when you need it?
 
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Still can be lucky. Looks, it depends how easy is to get job done.

In Wisbech (PE13) ~ half a town went live in a year, but my corner (PE13 3TL) stuck for some reason. Now they promised to go live in June, just not sure, which year... .
 

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So when you're in a position to actually move to an alt-net you're kinda still screwed, so end up having to remain with your existing provider for another x months locked into another contract.
 
"Brilliant" company... .

Just got answer, why I it will be never ending story...

...
Wisbech was an area of interest for us, as we identified that the majority of the area still relies heavily on the copper network. We hope to reach over 1 million premises by 2024, to make sure that areas like yours can still receive connection with the ever looming ‘copper switch off’ declared by Ofcom.

Unfortunately, we are having issues with contractor resource in this area, this is why the build is currently on hold. I apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you.

We will review these areas on a case-by-case basis when it is viable for us to do so.....

At least OpenReach pulling cables as well. Noticed that CityFibre also quietly pulling cables.
 
Yeah, they'll get here eventually I hope. Openreach just finished in my street this month which I've just had installed, and from what I see and hear, Netomnia tends to just piggy back off from Openreach via PIA in most cases, so fingers crossed they'll see that Openreach have finished up finally in my area and will hopefully get back to work.

Yes, it's something I made recently quickly which runs a list of given postcodes from a .txt every day and stores the data. I've just fed it my local few streets and a few others and usually don't see much activity. I'll think about cleaning up the code and releasing it if there's enough interest, but for now you can just open BIDB with network logs open filtered to "youfibre", and in their API response you should see the status codes numbered 0-8 which I was referring to. One thing I can't figure out though is status code 4, which is what my street is currently on, and most of the town. There's actually two status code 4's:

RI_INPLANNING_EX_INBUILD
&
RI_INPLANNING_EX_ONHOLD

with mine being the former, but many houses on my street being the latter including my neighbour, even though my whole street is served by the same pole. I assume yours will be one of these two. It's all just confusing and I wish I'd never dug so far deep into it but here I am now, always finding more questions than answers and digging deeper.
Hey I spoke to Youfibre told me that my area is in stage 5 of 8 stages. Do you know what stage 5 is?
 
Ask them. They answered me, when I asked about stage 6, "install cables" in progress. So, probably something before installing cables.
 
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Hey I spoke to Youfibre told me that my area is in stage 5 of 8 stages. Do you know what stage 5 is?
Stage 5 is unfortunately just ToDo, but once it's on 5 it seems to move quickly

The only stage I don't know is 7, it seems to skip from 6(in progress) to 8(ready for sale)

Luckily for me, it has jumped from 4 which it's been on for years, to 5, then I started to see their vans in my area again after not seeing them for years, and in the same week it then jumped to 6. Also just got a letter drop from Netomnia today and see alot of activity from them so should be ready soon fingers crossed
 
I'm in stage 6 nearly 2 years...
 
Stage 5 is unfortunately just ToDo, but once it's on 5 it seems to move quickly

The only stage I don't know is 7, it seems to skip from 6(in progress) to 8(ready for sale)

Luckily for me, it has jumped from 4 which it's been on for years, to 5, then I started to see their vans in my area again after not seeing them for years, and in the same week it then jumped to 6. Also just got a letter drop from Netomnia today and see alot of activity from them so should be ready soon fingers crossed
Do you check via inspect element on BIDB? I tried to do the inspect element method on BIDB to check mine (so I don’t have to constantly ask youfibre) and in the network section it shows nothing
 
Do you check via inspect element on BIDB? I tried to do the inspect element method on BIDB to check mine (so I don’t have to constantly ask youfibre) and in the network section it shows nothing
Yeah that's the quickest way of quickly having a look, the exact endpoint is


Just filter for that in the search and it should be there, make sure you have your devtools open before opening BIDB otherwise it won't be recording network requests, and obviously that the network tab itself is set to record. Otherwise you can just also pop a refresh once it's recording
 
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Yeah that's the quickest way of quickly having a look, the exact endpoint is


Just filter for that in the search and it should be there, make sure you have your devtools open before opening BIDB otherwise it won't be recording network requests, and obviously that the network tab itself is set to record. Otherwise you can just also pop a refresh once it's recording
Thanks for this. So I just tried this and the status code says "200 OK" with a green circle before the 200.

Edit: Actually never mind. Was checking in the wrong section. Says build status 5 to do.
 
Yeah that's the quickest way of quickly having a look, the exact endpoint is


Just filter for that in the search and it should be there, make sure you have your devtools open before opening BIDB otherwise it won't be recording network requests, and obviously that the network tab itself is set to record. Otherwise you can just also pop a refresh once it's recording
Is this something I can do for openreach as well? Bidb now says Openreach FTTP is now planned in my area
 
Live as of today for me hooray at last:)

Another interesting thing is only the houses on the edge of my road have gone live, luckily I happen to be one of those hehe - we have two poles on our road and two new Netomnia manholes on each end and since the whole road isn't live I reckon it is probably going to be a dig install, oh well

That's now been almost 3 years on the dot since I first had a visit from Netomnia in my road in which they installed the manholes
 
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