VM - keep getting things saying we will be doing my street

fionajbanana

It's been like this for 6-7 months and when I enter my postcode on their website, only one house number is listed. The properties were built 4-4.5 years ago and the last empty property had people moving in over 3 years ago.

If I contact VM will they able to provide an exact date when cabling will be installed down my road? If they cannot, they should not raise people's hopes.

To those that live in new build estates, how long did you have to wait for VM to come to your road?

I have Sky tv, bb and phone and its costing me £60 a month. VM quotes me on their website far less.

fionajbanana

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Never seen it happen at any (decent sized) new build estate that I have worked on, if the infrastructure doesn't go in during build, it doesn't go in.
But they have ever had these note either, so they must be worth something.

My house is on an estate with 55-62 properties on two streets.

Buzby

I have only seen this happen if the developers installed the ducting AND cabling to street cabinets. As they have no infrastructure teams any extension requires contractors to do the work, leaving VM's staff to complete the final cable pull through.

If there is nothing in place now - VM will not be in a position to do anything useful. I am very close to a street which one side is complete, and the other only has ducts, but never completed. That was 14 years ago - nothing has changed.

wiogs

VM are hopeless at expanding their network.

Don't hold your breath for any chance of switching to them.

Twisted_Cherry

I live in a new build, built in 2009 / 2010. I am in a flat.

We have a combination of houses, private buy and rented, and 2 blocks of flats (12 in total). Houses about 25!

VM is available in all the new houses, the cables run down both of the main streets. VM also supply all the older terraced houses which have no doubt been supplied since C&W days.

But get this, our flats are not supplied, but I am on the main road, and right outside my door is a cable grid. The nearest property to me with VM is 20 paces away, all that is between us is a little bit of greenery and a bike shed!

I feel there is no reason why VM cannot supply my flat by running the cable off the main road into my spare room!

Before the flats where build there were older council flats on this land, and they were supplied by VM!

Heinz

Times have changed.