Which fibre ?

MouldyOldDough

The roads around my house are currently being dug up and fibre is being laid - as well as strung up between poles - but I have no idea which ISP this is related to

Is there some way of finding out ?

A website for example ?

The workmen are foreign and don't speak English, so I can't ask them

I am wondering because I really desire FIBRE To The PROPERTY having wait for so long !!

matelodave

you could always ask the council as they'd need permission to dig up the roads and probably to install extra poles

Not sure if council permission is required to string stuff from existing telephone poles but a reasonable guess would be that as Open Reach probably own the phone poles then its OR (or it contractors) that's doing the stringing.

MouldyOldDough

matelodave said:

you could always ask the council as they'd need permission to dig up the roads and probably to install extra poles

Not sure if council permission is required to string stuff from existing telephone poles but a reasonable guess would be that as Open Reach probably own the phone poles then its OR (or it contractors) that's doing the stringing.

if it is BT openreach - does this mean that only BT will be offering FTTP or will TalkTalk etc (using BT lines) be as well ?

daveyjp

If its a new provider you will at some point be inundated with mail advertising the new service.

Unless it's Virgin it is unlikely to be a single ISP.  The likes of Openreach, Cityfibre etc install the cables and ISPs then offer services over the fibre network.

flaneurs_lobster

If it's Openreach (or another fibre layer) they will offer a number of ISPs.

Stick your postcode into here https://bidb.uk/ . It's by no means comprehensive but might show you current and planned services for your address. Hover over the providers on the right to see where they are.

Be aware, just because the digging may complete on your street doesn't mean that provision of FTTP happens quickly. In my street it took a little less than a year before all the bits were joined up and services offered.

MouldyOldDough

flaneurs_lobster said:

If it's Openreach (or another fibre layer) they will offer a number of ISPs.

Stick your postcode into here https://bidb.uk/ . It's by no means comprehensive but might show you current and planned services for your address. Hover over the providers on the right to see where they are.

Be aware, just because the digging may complete on your street doesn't mean that provision of FTTP happens quickly. In my street it took a little less than a year before all the bits were joined up and services offered.

Thanks - that says BT Openreach is LIVE - and TalkTalk etc are also available

But not according to TT !!

iniltous

Using existing Openreach infrastructure like poles is no indication that it’s Openreach FTTP being installed, it’s just as likely it’s an Alternative Network using PIA ( physical infrastructure access ) , if the people doing the work don’t speak English, they should still have guards around any excavations with the permission to dig references number and the company the work is for displayed prominently, so that companies direct labour or a subcontractor not speaking English shouldn’t be an issue , what’s more the works supervisor should be able to speak English, as the council may visit , and expect to be able to converse, TBH , it’s more likely Alt Nets would use contractors like this , not OR .

There is no such organisation as BT Openreach it’s just Openreach and the various OR networks are  used by dozens if not hundreds of companies not just BT .

clive0510

I have a telegraph pole in my garden. I came home one day a few years ago to find cables n wires draped across my shed roof, and attached to a box which had appeared on the pole. no explanation. phoned bt and asked what exactly is the score? was told they were half way through installing fibre and would return tomorrow, which they did. 
so when it was all complete, told my isp would like to go on fibre now. but was told I couldn't until it was switched on. so other people all around me, with other isp, were able to get fibre, through the connection in my garden, but I couldn't !. in fact I had to wait almost 2 years until it was offered. and I am actually on fibre now. i been on it about 2 months now.but what a palavoa. 

MouldyOldDough

MouldyOldDough said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

If it's Openreach (or another fibre layer) they will offer a number of ISPs.

Stick your postcode into here https://bidb.uk/ . It's by no means comprehensive but might show you current and planned services for your address. Hover over the providers on the right to see where they are.

Be aware, just because the digging may complete on your street doesn't mean that provision of FTTP happens quickly. In my street it took a little less than a year before all the bits were joined up and services offered.

Thanks - that says BT Openreach is LIVE - and TalkTalk etc are also available

But not according to TT !!

I tell a lie 
It shows that Openreach are working their way up my road 
They have LIVE on the first half and PLANNED on my half (where the work is currently being done)!! 

housebuyer143

MouldyOldDough said:

MouldyOldDough said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

If it's Openreach (or another fibre layer) they will offer a number of ISPs.

Stick your postcode into here https://bidb.uk/ . It's by no means comprehensive but might show you current and planned services for your address. Hover over the providers on the right to see where they are.

Be aware, just because the digging may complete on your street doesn't mean that provision of FTTP happens quickly. In my street it took a little less than a year before all the bits were joined up and services offered.

Thanks - that says BT Openreach is LIVE - and TalkTalk etc are also available

But not according to TT !!

I tell a lie 
It shows that Openreach are working their way up my road 
They have LIVE on the first half and PLANNED on my half (where the work is currently being done)!! 

That will be it then.. They just finished my area and I signed right up to 500gb FTTP for £32 a month and it's really excellent.

ALogical1

Femember infrastructure providers are different from consumer service sellers.

In the main Open Reach seem to be providing most of the UK geographic infrastructure coverage, most other are just ding the population centers i.e. after the low hanging fruit consumers, i.e. those in cities where they get more consumers per meter of infrastructure.

But no responsibel authority forces sellers to state what 'Geographic' % of UK they cover, just the population %, which can be very missleading, its just like mobile 'coverage', if your ina blackspot, no one cares, you're just not proffitable enough.

Many sellers use OR e.g. talktalk/talktalk business, Vodaphone, Sky, and of course the BT conglomerate brands, EE, PLusnet, even 'BT' themselves. Just think all those Cx0 types and 'organisational' overheads that have to be paid for, and the corporate consumer madness, BT are more expensive than Vodaphone and Plusnet, and its all the the same infrastructure, what a waste which we consumers end up paying for.