Openreach FTTP

SamL1

Hi,

I am moving into a new built flat and I'm trying to research broadband deals before we move in.

However, I have stumbled across a piece of technology I'm unfamilar with and unsure how to proceed! I have asked some questions to the lettings agent to ask the landlord but my questions still remain unanswered.

When I first visited the property, I noticed some Openreach techonolgy and I was unsure of its purpose. Upon further research, I have discovered that the property has FTTP enabled and it is for that.

Can somebody please explain whether any broadband provider can connect to this? I'm having a problem when trying to look on price comparison sites because the postcode can't be found.

If I need a specific FTTP provider and instead would like to go with a 'traditional' provider, would I need to have a new copper phone line installed? I have had a look on the Openreach website regarding getting one installed and it asks what type of socket I already have. One being the FTTP one.

Finally. The box at the top looks like a modem/router for an exisiting broadband connection. Could somebody please give me their opinion on that?

Thank-you!

steve_blake1490667

If you have Openreach based FTTP in the new build then its a good chance it will be fibre only, ie no copper feed.

The well known ISPs selling Openreach FTTP are BT, Zen, IDNet and AAISP. BT are likely to be the cheapest. I *think* BT are the only ISP which can supply a voice over fibre (FVA) service if you also require a voice landline service.

re "modem/router", it will be actually be an ONT which is technically neither a modem or router You will plug the ISP supplied router into its spare (single?) LAN port and you're good to go. These are photos of the Openreach ONT installed when I had FTTPoD installed. However this is the 4 LAN port ONT, you'll probably have the newer ONT installed, which is bigger but has a BBU (back up battery built-in).

onomatopoeia99

So, if I understand this well, you have fibre to the premises, which is the best internet infrastructure currently obtainable in a domestic setting. It is the thing we are told almost the whole of Europe already has and we are lagging behind in the digital dark ages with "worn out" copper (I leave it as an exercise to explain how copper gets worn out), as so few properties have FTTP available. And you want to get Openreach out to install some 1920s technology that everyone moans about and says needs to be phased out immediately instead?

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@SamL1

BT will not install a copper line to an FTTP only property.

You have been given the best technology available and the only one BT really wants to install going forward. Ditto the only one that the CBI, IoD, Government, OFCOM want to see installed. All these bodies are planning how to remove copper phone wires from the UK over the next 15 years.

Welcome to the future.

newja

Being still in the dark ages here on non-fibre broadband we have had Openreach work started on upgrading in the last few days and they report FTTP is going in.

I have a phone line which I never use but only have to gain use of said broadband. Mr Openreach told me that I will no longer need my phone line to have broadband if I take the FTTP deal up.

Is Mr Openreach having me on I wonder?! Time alone will tell...

iniltous

newja wrote: »

Being still in the dark ages here on non-fibre broadband we have had Openreach work started on upgrading in the last few days and they report FTTP is going in.

I have a phone line which I never use but only have to gain use of said broadband. Mr Openreach told me that I will no longer need my phone line to have broadband if I take the FTTP deal up.

Is Mr Openreach having me on I wonder?! Time alone will tell...

If you can have FTTP broadband without any telephony don't expect it to be any cheaper than a regular line and broadband.

AndyPK

In fact it will be more expensive with limited providers.

That is why :money: like a nice pair of copper wires