Fibre to pole in village

Nightingale4321

I hope someone can help!
 Fibre to pole came to our village in 2018. The previous owner of our property opted not to have it added(?!)  although the whole of the village did. Having phoned BT to see if I can have it done retrospectively, they said it would cost a fortune and the answer is no anyway! Has anyone else experienced anything similar and whether I do have a case tog connected? Thanks.

littleboo

what services are available to to you when you put your details into the BT consumer site, or https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com

JJ_Egan

Fibre to the pole , confused .

What service are the other home owners getting ?

Nightingale4321

Thanks very much for your responses.
Basically placing fibre alongside copper on the telephone pole I believe. FTTP? I am a tech Neanderthal.
Other homeowners getting up to 60MB. We are guaranteed 1MB although my package says 'unlimited' and costs £26.99.  Fibre BB comes to the telephone pole on the lane and we are set down a drive, so in that distance we seem to lose our ability to receive decent BB. I would pay to connect, but BT said it would be very expensive. They are obviously not obliged to connect us but is there any way I can create an incentive for them to do it??!

JJ_Egan

Up to 60 is not Open Reach optical FTTP .

Unlimited is usage .

Mister_G

OP, it looks to me like you are currently on the standard ADSL package.  Your "other homeowners" seem to be on a FTTC VDSL package.  This is fibre to the cabinet but is then the ordinary copper cable to the house. You could ask for a FTTC connection, as long as there is capacity in your local cabinet.

Asking for a FTTP connection when there is no nearby actual fibre will be very expensive.

matelodave

You can tell whether you've got fibre to the pole by checking the poles. There's a fibre connection unit at the top plus other gubbins on the pole. There are also yellow warning labels to indicate that there are fibre cables attached to the pole. Look here. http://andysworld.org.uk/tag/fttp/ (this describes exactly what I've got)

It sounds more like you've got fibre to the cabinet which is distributed via pole mounted cabling,

BT were having some trials with fibre to the pole equipment a couple of years ago - look here https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/06/bt-openreach-test-new-1gbps-broadband-pole-mounted-fttdp-g-fast-kit.html so you need to go out and have a shufti to see if there are any strange looking boxes etc attached to the poles in the vicinity of your house or locality. I dont know whether is was rolled out or whether its all been stalled in favour of FTTP.

The fact that it might be available at the end of the lane or in the next street doesn't always mean that it's available to your premises.Higher speeds over the last couple of hundred metres of copper is very distance dependent

Nightingale4321

Thank you all for your help.  Yes, I think it's FTTC.  It is just strange that 39 out of 40 houses are connected and mine was not.  It was during the time of the previous owner and he strangely must have said no as I understand everyone was offered the option.  However, I would have thought there would have been some provision to connect up at some point, bearing in mind houses do change hands.  Other houses, a similar distance from the main street as us have been connected.  Yes, BT said it would be expensive to connect....what does that mean.......hundreds....thousands???

JJ_Egan

What service do you have now . Have you checked ?

Mister_G

As I said in my previous post, an exclusive FTTP connection will be expensive (or maybe even not available).  You should be able to apply for an FTTC connection, if there is spare capacity in the cabinet.

Put you phone number into this and see what is available.

BT Broadband (btwholesale.com)

Tokmon

Nightingale4321 said:

Thank you all for your help.  Yes, I think it's FTTC.  It is just strange that 39 out of 40 houses are connected and mine was not.  It was during the time of the previous owner and he strangely must have said no as I understand everyone was offered the option.  However, I would have thought there would have been some provision to connect up at some point, bearing in mind houses do change hands.  Other houses, a similar distance from the main street as us have been connected.  Yes, BT said it would be expensive to connect....what does that mean.......hundreds....thousands???

I feel like there is some misunderstanding here if you have been asking about being connected to Fibre broadband they assumed you wanted FTTP when your just after FTTC.

FTTC uses the same copper phone line into your house that is already there and the other end goes into a cabinet and then it's connected to Fibre at that point. There is no reason why they would even ask the homeowners if they wanted to be connected in this way and they wouldn't be able to refuse because all the wiring changes will be done outside their property. 

So what exactly have they said the previous owner didn't opt to be connected too?