From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

On 27 Mar 2026 17:21, Tweed wrote:

If you are pondering moving to FTTP, and are fed by overhead lines, it may
be worth getting a move on. IrCOve recently had a migration and the Openreach technician said there were only 8 available connections on our pole. That pole serves more than 8 properties. I enquired what might happen after all
8 were used. The response was yourCOd be waiting a long time for them to upgrade. Bit like FTTC that when all the connections in the cabinet were
used up you were out of luck.

Until last week I had three fibres to my house.

Only one of them is in use, another is connected to an ONT but the ONT
is off and the third only gets as far as the CSP.

Openreach knocked on the door last week to ask if I could spare one as
my neighbour had ordered FTTP (via Zen). I relinquished the one that is
only to the ONT. So it is still there but not plugged in at the top of
the pole. Strange that the planners sent out a team without checking
first.

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Rupert Moss-Eccardt <news@moss-eccardt.com> wrote:

On 27 Mar 2026 17:21, Tweed wrote:

If you are pondering moving to FTTP, and are fed by overhead lines, it may >> be worth getting a move on. IrCOve recently had a migration and the Openreach
technician said there were only 8 available connections on our pole. That
pole serves more than 8 properties. I enquired what might happen after all >> 8 were used. The response was yourCOd be waiting a long time for them to
upgrade. Bit like FTTC that when all the connections in the cabinet were
used up you were out of luck.

Until last week I had three fibres to my house.

Only one of them is in use, another is connected to an ONT but the ONT
is off and the third only gets as far as the CSP.

Openreach knocked on the door last week to ask if I could spare one as
my neighbour had ordered FTTP (via Zen). I relinquished the one that is
only to the ONT. So it is still there but not plugged in at the top of
the pole. Strange that the planners sent out a team without checking
first.

IrCOm assuming you are only paying for the one active fibre? If thatrCOs the case presumably the planners know this and the technician call was to
double check?

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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

On 25 Apr 2026 08:37, Tweed wrote:

Rupert Moss-Eccardt <news@moss-eccardt.com> wrote:

On 27 Mar 2026 17:21, Tweed wrote:

If you are pondering moving to FTTP, and are fed by overhead lines, it may >>> be worth getting a move on. IrCOve recently had a migration and the Openreach
technician said there were only 8 available connections on our pole. That >>> pole serves more than 8 properties. I enquired what might happen after all >>> 8 were used. The response was yourCOd be waiting a long time for them to >>> upgrade. Bit like FTTC that when all the connections in the cabinet were >>> used up you were out of luck.

Until last week I had three fibres to my house.

Only one of them is in use, another is connected to an ONT but the ONT
is off and the third only gets as far as the CSP.

Openreach knocked on the door last week to ask if I could spare one as
my neighbour had ordered FTTP (via Zen). I relinquished the one that is
only to the ONT. So it is still there but not plugged in at the top of
the pole. Strange that the planners sent out a team without checking
first.

IrCOm assuming you are only paying for the one active fibre? If thatrCOs the case presumably the planners know this and the technician call was to
double check?

You would hope so, but the tone wasn't quite like that. But, once
they saw the CSP with nothing customer-side they seemed quite relieved.


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From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

On 27/03/2026 17:21, Tweed wrote:

If you are pondering moving to FTTP, and are fed by overhead lines, it may
be worth getting a move on. IrCOve recently had a migration and the Openreach technician said there were only 8 available connections on our pole. That pole serves more than 8 properties. I enquired what might happen after all
8 were used. The response was yourCOd be waiting a long time for them to upgrade. Bit like FTTC that when all the connections in the cabinet were
used up you were out of luck.

Also: Don't Delay.

I "out of contract" with my previous broadband+phone provider paying
some silly standard rate, purely so that I could jump on Community Fibre
the instant they threaded fibre to my door.

I'd even seen bits of their infrastructure in neighbouring roads
(manhole covers, bits of FITB) so assumed someone would knock. I saw
their online lookup said "service not currently available" for my
address, thought ah, just let them get on with it - it will be here soon.

Today, I gave them a phone call.

No, it's not coming. My address is just outside their planned deployment
zone.

Grrrr. Didn't know that. If I did I would have moved earlier and
squashed those standard rate charges.

Consoled myself my signing up to Zen. Plusnet most upset losing me. EE
not even a looking (too expensive on higher speeds).


[FITB] - Fibre In the Breeze, yellow jacketed strands of fibre labelled
with "Community Fibre Ltd" flapping about BT telephone poles waiting for something.
--
Adrian C
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Adrian Caspersz wrote:

I "out of contract" with my previous broadband+phone provider paying
some silly standard rate, purely so that I could jump on Community Fibre
the instant they threaded fibre to my door.

I'd even seen bits of their infrastructure in neighbouring roads
(manhole covers, bits of FITB) so assumed someone would knock. I saw
their online lookup said "service not currently available" for my
address, thought ah, just let them get on with it - it will be here soon.

Today, I gave them a phone call.

No, it's not coming. My address is just outside their planned deployment zone.

Openreach fibre checker has been saying "in the next year", then for the
past couple of months I've been noticing lots of spray paint on paths
around manholes and telephone poles, roadworks.org has been showing
increased work booked between exchange and here, coiled loops of fibre
have started appearing at tops of poles, later this week openreach have
a slot booked in the next road to mine ...

I think all the roads they've worked on so far are overhead wired, and
we're one of about 4 roads that were underground wired from the late
'60s onwards.

So will we or won't we get an underground fibre "pit" in the street?
The suspense is killing me ...

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