Am I right in thinking.......

Daz2009

Openreach are installing fibre in my area in the new year.
Am I right in thinking they will be replacing the copper wires with fibre up to the street cabinets ?
If so,does that mean if I remain on a non fibre contract (currently upto 8Mb ) I will get the benefit of a more stable and slightly faster connection ?

VisionMan

No.

Openreach will only add fibre lines to your local cabinet. The copper wires will remain untouched. So you'll still get the same service/speeds as before.

Daz2009

So what you're saying is they'll put the fibre in place but only connect them to your line in the cabinet when you upgrade ?

VisionMan

Daz2009 wrote: »

So what you're saying is they'll put the fibre in place but only connect them to your line in the cabinet when you upgrade ?

Yes, thats right. Thats exactly what I'm saying. Though there are a quite a few offers/discounts flying around at the moment. Of which I am a recipient -

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4313825

So theres every chance you'll get some kind of discount too.

tyllwyd

Out of interest, how do you know that they will be installing fibre - did they write to you? (I'm curious because three-quarters of my town was upgraded to fibre last year, but of course I live in the other quarter and I'm not sure when - if ever- they will get round to doing us!)

Daz2009

I think I read it on Talktalks website somewhere....I'm with them....it showed a map and my street is pencilled in for january 2013

GarbageGuy

Go to here to check if your local exchange will get/has fibre:
samknows, exchange search

I got it with Sky a few weeks ago, went from 5mb down 1mb up to 40/10, very nice, I also went through topcashback and was promised £85 cashback as an existing customer it didnt track so had to raise a ticket.