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Rollout timelines

Hi all, I've done some digging by way of BIDB, and discovered that my entire street has YouFibre service, with the exception of a few buildings - one of which I live in.

For the rest of the addresses on my street:

"friendlyName": "YouFibre",
"fttp": true,
"maxSpeed": 920,
"maxSpeedUp": 920,
"message": {
"BuildStatus": "8-RFS",
"IsBDUK": "false",
"NetomniaSalesStatus": "ORDER",
"Providers": "Netomnia",
"SalesStatus": "ORDER",

For my address:

"friendlyName": "YouFibre",
"fttp": false,
"message": {
"BuildStatus": null,
"IsBDUK": "false",
"NetomniaSalesStatus": "RI_LANDLORD",
"Providers": "Netomnia",
"SalesStatus": "REGISTER_INTEREST",

Can I assume this means Landlord permission is required and / or was unable to be got to date? Any suggestions regarding how I can proceed?
 
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Can I assume this means Landlord permission is required and / or was unable to be got to date? Any suggestions regarding how I can proceed?

That's how I'd read it.
Might be worth discussing with whoever the landlord/management firm is for the company, I'd spell out a few things like: PIA so will likely use BT ducts/pole to the building if they are available, be a hole next to the phone socket for them and isn't a million new wires or holes in the wall. More consumer choice is good for tenants / cheaper options etc.

The contact form via YF would likely be able to get you an exact answer in your instance.

Without knowing what the property is/looks like or who owns/manages what, including any land around it - it'd be a total guess though.
 
Does the hole drilled by youfibre have to be downstairs by a disused BT box? I'd like my router upstairs. As they have ladders to strand the fiber from the pole outside my house to the corner, I presume its just as easy for them to do this?
 
Thought I'd check the devtools again for my property and was surprised to see I have a build status now (it was null before). Probably means nothing and there's still no timeline as to when I may get service (Netomnia chambers installed last year and a crew a few doors down attempting to clear BT duct blockages), but I guess the possibility of getting service has increased again.

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I live in a small town with only Virgin as an option for fast fibre (I want to avoid them if at all possible) so have been on FTTC for years, supplemented last year with 5G load balancing. This works for most of my needs, but uploading data to remote servers is the blocker as both my connections can only handle 10-12 megabits upload each.
Three weeks later and I thought I'd check again - looks like we've moved to Stage 4 now.

There's also a lot of Virgin Media streetworks appeared on BIDB and MastDatabase for the next few weeks for installing cabinets either where there aren't any currently or where there's the little green ones. So there might be a race between Virgin and Netomnia/YouFibre in my area (I know who I'm cheering for!)

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Unfortunately it says nothing...

Mine (PE13 3TL) is in stage 6 for 2 years, at least....
 
They’ve finally started digging up my street. Hopefully this means youfibre will finally be available soon.
 
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For anyone (at all) curious what happened in my 'Landlord' situation - I got a response from Netomnia / YouFibre yesterday:

"We've been advised by Netomnia that unfortunately, even with land owner/landlord permission, the property in question requires a great deal of remediation work to connect multi dwelling units at this time and Netomnia have advised this has been put on hold for your area until a sufficient plan is in place.

We have been informed this can take upwards of six months planning at this time with no set timescale just yet regarding completion."
 
Bidb is now showing that I’m in build stage 6 now and status says pre order but can’t seem to pre order just yet. Still the same currently building message.
 
Still currently in a very early building phase for Netomnia on my property [so as a result, i don’t show up in BIDB via the aforementioned dev tools route], but they are scheduling works to begin in Q1 2025 for a neighbouring set of towns, so hopefully they reach me later in 2025, esp as they’ve marked my property as “planning stage” on their availability checker on the website.

That so many people post in this thread about rollout timelines shows they must be doing a good service as many people want them to roll out to their house too! Only continues to increase my belief that my future ISP should be YouFibre [or any other partner isp who onboards in the future to Netomnia’s network]
 
they must be doing a good service as many people want them to roll out to their house too!
From my POV - they look well rated as an ISP, their public transparency is nice and my options are: BT FTTP, VM RFoG only currently. If an altnet does this area (Full Fibre Ltd and Netomnia are doing my area it seems) I'd rather:
  • pay less
  • have more speed (Netomnia) or at least symmetrical service.
  • Pay an altnet vs BT/VM.
  • Stick with BT vs EE - but they will be removing that "soon" - they migrated my mobile number and I ended up porting out it was such a mess.
Out of my choices, the VM network is dogsh... in comparison to the BT offering. (Poor latency / loads of jitter, poor mandatory equipment, extra units plugged in because RFoG etc.)

So for me its about getting a value option / alternative to the two largest players. The frustrating thing for me out of the two "soon" options, Netomnia would be my preferred as it looks a bit more forward-thinking. But for whatever reason FFL have our street in plan and Netomnia do not currently. (even though its all ducted, they were clear recently enough for BT to roll out and I'm ~3 streets away (cable path) from the exchange where I suspect they have presence. (Roadworks for them lead to the exchange).

I'm sure there's a chunk more folks where Netomnia are following BT round and the value proposition looks appealing.
 
Got a letter through from Netomnia (nothing from youfibre yet) that they are starting to build in my area. I’ve already seen them working in my street. Anyone know how long it usually takes from here?
 
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I never saw any work in my street when youfibre arrived. For our street it certainly appeared that the BT poles already had fibre going to them, just BT never offered a FTTH service.

No digging, nothing. As far as I'm aware the first time someone went up the telegraph pole opposite my house was when the youfibre engineer arrived to do the install.

From the first letter through the door it was about 3-4 months till live for me. (as I'd typically already signed up to another Virgin contract.......which as you can imagine VM handled terribly when i left!)
 
My property has advanced again. Also now showing 'YouFibre is planned' in BIDB. Maybe the Virgin Media works have given them a kick up the bum. Could still be years down the line, who knows?!

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