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Following on from the recent threads on lack of FTTP at adjacent
properties, I checked my street. I live at the very end of a cul-de-sac and
I notice that while we are still on VDSL, the first half of the street gets full fibre.

I'm pretty that's a fairly recent development, although I've not seen any
BTOR activity at that end for years. So, is there anywhere to see *when*
those properties went live? Mostly out of curiosity as we don't need more
than the 45/19 we currently get.

The BT cabinet is ~50m from the end of the street along the main road.

I know the OR underground"end point" for the cluster of houses at our end
is on the edge of our property in amongst some trees. There's an old "PTO"
mini "gravestone" marking it. Our end was a 70s development extending the street and I can well imagine our infrastructure is very different to the
rest of the more established street.
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Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Following on from the recent threads on lack of FTTP at adjacent
properties, I checked my street. I live at the very end of a cul-de-sac and >> I notice that while we are still on VDSL, the first half of the street gets >> full fibre.

I'm pretty that's a fairly recent development, although I've not seen any
BTOR activity at that end for years. So, is there anywhere to see *when*
those properties went live? Mostly out of curiosity as we don't need more
than the 45/19 we currently get.

The BT cabinet is ~50m from the end of the street along the main road.

I know the OR underground"end point" for the cluster of houses at our end
is on the edge of our property in amongst some trees. There's an old "PTO" >> mini "gravestone" marking it. Our end was a 70s development extending the
street and I can well imagine our infrastructure is very different to the
rest of the more established street.

You might not need FTTP now, but VDSL is on borrowed time if only because OpenReach is going to run out of staff qualified to fix copper faults and
the VDSL equipment will become obsolete. But maybe that might encourage OR
to get fibre to you.

Using the BT checker it states "We are planning to build (sic) in this
area". Which sounds promising, but is only one up from "We have no
plans..." and one down from "We will [..] in the next year".

As far as IrCOm aware there is no simple method to determine when an FTTP service went live.

Shame.


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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Following on from the recent threads on lack of FTTP at adjacent
properties, I checked my street. I live at the very end of a cul-de-sac and
I notice that while we are still on VDSL, the first half of the street gets full fibre.

I'm pretty that's a fairly recent development, although I've not seen any BTOR activity at that end for years. So, is there anywhere to see *when* those properties went live? Mostly out of curiosity as we don't need more than the 45/19 we currently get.

The BT cabinet is ~50m from the end of the street along the main road.

I know the OR underground"end point" for the cluster of houses at our end
is on the edge of our property in amongst some trees. There's an old "PTO" mini "gravestone" marking it. Our end was a 70s development extending the street and I can well imagine our infrastructure is very different to the rest of the more established street.

You might not need FTTP now, but VDSL is on borrowed time if only because OpenReach is going to run out of staff qualified to fix copper faults and
the VDSL equipment will become obsolete. But maybe that might encourage OR
to get fibre to you.

As far as IrCOm aware there is no simple method to determine when an FTTP service went live.

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