Uno Fibre and FTTP when fibre has never installed along the long drive.

littleboo

You are going to have to have full fibre at some point, the copper network will be withdrawn and if FTTP is available, there will come a time when you wont be able to re-contract for a service over copper. The disruption to the neighbors will be short, you may as well get it over and done with. What would they do if the driveway needed repair or resurfacing?

brewerdave

joeypesci said:

Its a long shared driveway so no one house owns it. Its shared between 3 houses. If we'd agreed for OpenReach to dig then we'd have blocked the big house for getting any of their cars out and even more so the house next door. The only other option I assume they can have is FTTC. Because doesn't that just go to the cabinet then travels up the already laid copper that already runs the ADSL? If so, its a bummer as the FTTC option is slow, only 4 times quicker than the current ADSL they have installed.

Just a thought - do the installers actually have to excavate ? Can't some sort of "worm" device be used to pull the fibre thru ?

brewerdave

littleboo said:

You are going to have to have full fibre at some point, the copper network will be withdrawn and if FTTP is available, there will come a time when you wont be able to re-contract for a service over copper. The disruption to the neighbors will be short, you may as well get it over and done with. What would they do if the driveway needed repair or resurfacing?

I believe that there will still be properties supplied via existing copper wires for a considerable number of years - particularly in cases like this one where the install is "problematic". The obvious solution is to persuade the neighbours to move to FTTP as well.

jimbo6977

Openreach do lots of similar fibre provisions all the time. The main stumbling block is getting the correct permissions and/or wayleaves agreed with landowners before civil engineering works take place. Getting the permissions/wayleaves can take anywhere from half an hour to several months depending, but it's extremely rare that the job of providing fibre to the premises is, in itself, impossible.