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Telegraph pole ready for fttp?

adamgilbride

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Hi everyone,

This is my first time posting on here. This site has been a wealth of info for me sporadically over the years, so thank you to everyone who contributes and makes it the mine of information it is!

I'm interested in some expert opinions, and I have added some photos which will hopefully help with my question.

My house is one of about four that is fed from a telegraph pole, which in turn appears to take a feed from another pole on the neighbouring street. 'My' telegraph pole was replaced in early December (the previous one had leaned to one side rather a lot for a number of years!) and has a single black Openreach box on top. The pole on the neighbouring street seems to have a full complement of FTTP equipment mounted on it (CBT boxes I think, from having looked elsewhere on this forum). Both my address and addresses on the neighbouring street (that are fed directly from the pole with the FTTP equipment on it), have a status of 'Build planned for December 2023' on the Openreach checker.

So my question is... from the pictures, does it look like anything else needs to happen to my telegraph pole before FTTP gets enabled? Best case appears to be that there is a fibre connection from the pole on the neighbouring street, and that everything 'just' needs to be switched on and tested before orders are opened. Sorry if this is a stupid question - I'm no expert. Very interested to hear everyone's thoughts on here, though because I've been struggling with a 30Mb connection for years!

The photo with the house in the background shows the pole that feeds my house. Thee photo with the blue sky is the pole on the neighbouring street. I've drawn arrows in red to show the cable that connects the two poles.

Thank you very much in advance and Happy New Year!

Adam
 

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The pole on the neighbouring street has a CBT mounted (the black box on the steel triangle-mount) which means that it is potentially live for FTTP, but it could still be awaiting work further into the network before it's fully live.

The black box on the pole next to your house is a copper distribution point so there's nothing relating to FTTP on that pole.
 
It's likely Openreach wouldn't install anything new until the pole was replaced. Now that they have replaced it they could run some fiber from the other post, assuming they plan for this when they did the other post and have fibre available up there. No wy for you to knwo for sure but the Build planned date of December 2023 is promising. However take these dates with a pinch of salt as they get missed all the time. Just keep an eye on your post for new CBTs. Then hit the BT site daily to see when it's enable for ordering.
 
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