Paying for FTTP install

Parksey

Hi, im trying to find some help with getting FTTP installed. 

I live in a cup-de-sac where every other house can get FTTP through virgin media or a selection of other providers from a line installed by city fibre.  My house sits back from the road and both virgin and city fibre have deemed it uneconomical to connect to my house.  I have spoken to both of them about meeting the costs of the install myself but have been told they can’t do that by both of them.  Basically I’ve been told in a more polite way, your neighbours can all get it but tough luck you can’t and there are no plans to connect my property. 

Does anyone know where I can go with this?
Ive looked at getting a dedicated line installed but this would cost upwards of £12000 over a 3 year contract.  I would much rather spend this money on paying for normal FTTP to be installed if possible.
Are there companies that can be contracted by an individual to install the lines?
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Chris

QrizB

Do you currently have a conventional phone line and FTTC? If so, I would imagine that OpenReach will get around to replacing it with FTTP eventually.

Parksey

Hi, Thankyou for replying.  I’m not sure with openreach to be honest, when I use the open reach postcode checker it just tells me there are no plans for install yet.  

I know there is fibre installed through city fibre to the cabinet.  Do you know if it is possible to pay to have it installed to my home? 

littleboo

It's down to Cityfibre and Virgin, and they have already said no

GrumpyDil

Do you currently have broadband? 

Tiexen

Parksey said:

Hi, im trying to find some help with getting FTTP installed. 

I live in a cup-de-sac where every other house can get FTTP through virgin media or a selection of other providers from a line installed by city fibre.  My house sits back from the road and both virgin and city fibre have deemed it uneconomical to connect to my house.  I have spoken to both of them about meeting the costs of the install myself but have been told they can’t do that by both of them.  Basically I’ve been told in a more polite way, your neighbours can all get it but tough luck you can’t and there are no plans to connect my property. 

Does anyone know where I can go with this?
Ive looked at getting a dedicated line installed but this would cost upwards of £12000 over a 3 year contract.  I would much rather spend this money on paying for normal FTTP to be installed if possible.
Are there companies that can be contracted by an individual to install the lines?
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Chris

Have you thought of Starlink:

STARLINK FOR HOMES

Reliable high-speed internet, wherever you live. £75/mo, with a hardware cost of £449.

glennevis

Parksey said:

Hi, im trying to find some help with getting FTTP installed. 

I live in a cup-de-sac where every other house can get FTTP through virgin media or a selection of other providers from a line installed by city fibre.  My house sits back from the road and both virgin and city fibre have deemed it uneconomical to connect to my house.  I have spoken to both of them about meeting the costs of the install myself but have been told they can’t do that by both of them.  Basically I’ve been told in a more polite way, your neighbours can all get it but tough luck you can’t and there are no plans to connect my property. 

Does anyone know where I can go with this?
Ive looked at getting a dedicated line installed but this would cost upwards of £12000 over a 3 year contract.  I would much rather spend this money on paying for normal FTTP to be installed if possible.
Are there companies that can be contracted by an individual to install the lines?
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Chris

It would be strange if City Fibre didn't provision all properties in your road.

Did City Fibre not install an access plate in the cul-de-sac at the nearest point adjacent to the boundary of your property?

matelodave

was there an option to have fibre run to your premises when the initial installation was carried out.

A friend of mine declined the offer when his street was being fibred and cant get it extended now the installation team has moved on. 

iniltous

TBH , your the answer to the question of is there ‘ anywhere you can go with this ‘ the answer is No , neither City Fibre ( as a network provider ) or Virgin ( you don’t make it clear if Virgin Network is available to neighbours or Virgin are an ISP on City Fibre ) have any sort of universal service obligation , anything outside of their commercial interests is not considered, presumably they don’t consider requests that fall outside this , even if you offer to mitigate the build costs they would have.

How is your property different to your neighbours, presumably you don’t have any direct access to the public road/ footpath …if Virgin existed for years ( and never offered service ) and now City Fibre have built in your area but omitted your address on the same basis , presumably it’s a pretty significant hurdle to overcome getting anything to your address.

brianposter

Round us it required a knowledgeable neighbour and complaints to our MP to sort things out.

400ixl

Assume then that your current telephone / internet comes in over OpenReach owned telegraph poles? I doubt City Fibre or Virgin would get permission to use this, so they would have to provide their own method to get the fibre to the property across your land.

About the only thing I can think of is what if you put in the ducting that goes from the kerb to the property for them to then use? No idea if they would take you up on such a proposal as it would not be their ducting but maybe an ask?

Other than that, what are the plans for OpenReach on your exchange? Is that getting FTTP in the future?

I assume you are on FTTC at the moment? What speeds do you get and do you really need FTTP speeds?