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Last night after we had gone to bed we heard people talking outside,
as it's a fairly rural location this is quite unusual. We looked out
and there was a group of people in hi-vis jackets installing fibre on
the posts down our road. It was well after 23:00.

I guess they had decided, given that our road is a no through road,
that they would block the road only when it was very unlikely that
people would want to get past.

Most of the rest of the village has been provided with CityFibre from
a trench dug in or alongside the road. Our little private road is
concrete though so I guess they decided that using the existing
overhead poles would be easier. There is now a little label at the
bottom of the pole saying "Cityfibre 13/8/2925". At the top of the
pole is a beige box with the fibre connection going in and out and a
drop wire down the pole with the end looped up at the moment.

Does anyone know:-

1 - Will they overhead the fibre into our house (it would be much
easier, existing FTTC comes from the same pole into my first floor
study)?

2 - How soon is a connection likely to be available (via IDnet or
AandA)?
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Chris Green
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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

Last night after we had gone to bed we heard people talking outside,
as it's a fairly rural location this is quite unusual. We looked out
and there was a group of people in hi-vis jackets installing fibre on
the posts down our road. It was well after 23:00.

I guess they had decided, given that our road is a no through road,
that they would block the road only when it was very unlikely that
people would want to get past.

Most of the rest of the village has been provided with CityFibre from
a trench dug in or alongside the road. Our little private road is
concrete though so I guess they decided that using the existing
overhead poles would be easier. There is now a little label at the
bottom of the pole saying "Cityfibre 13/8/2925". At the top of the
pole is a beige box with the fibre connection going in and out and a
drop wire down the pole with the end looped up at the moment.

Does anyone know:-

1 - Will they overhead the fibre into our house (it would be much
easier, existing FTTC comes from the same pole into my first floor
study)?

2 - How soon is a connection likely to be available (via IDnet or
AandA)?

1. A colleague who had CF on poles had an overhead drop wire fitted to the house. Well, drop fibre.
2. Hard to say. IDnet seem to have direct communication to CF, so best to
ask them to find out.

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Chris Green wrote:

there was a group of people in hi-vis jackets installing fibre on
the posts down our road. It was well after 23:00.

I guess they had decided, given that our road is a no through road,
that they would block the road only when it was very unlikely that
people would want to get past.

An old friend of mine works for OpenReach, and says that BT/OR can't do
that sort of thing, they have to arrange partial road closure/traffic
lights, but the little-boys just do it and get away with it ...

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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

2 - How soon is a connection likely to be available (via IDnet or
AandA)?

Very much depends on how much of the network has also been installed. They
may have installed the 'branches' in the street but the 'trunk' down the
road may not have been finished yet.

Theo
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:56:27 +0100, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

Does anyone know:-

2 - How soon is a connection likely to be available (via IDnet or
AandA)?

Keep an eye on the CF website: https://cityfibre.com/
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