...can't get fibre (to the premises) here, though the house that backs on to me could have it within (theoretically) a week. That's because it has recently been installed for many of the properties by "Connect Fibre" using the existing poles (augmented in a few places). My road is equipped entirely with subterranean copper, so, no poles, no fibre.
However, Virgin Media are as I write installing with, surprise, surprise, the subterranean areas as the prime target. They don't mind digging up the road (or more correctly, the pavement). They've been up one side, and it's mine next. Absolute chaos, and luckily we're away next week. They also managed to dig up the power connection to the house opposite (National Grid on site PDQ) with a four hour plus outage. ("That cable should have been much deeper").
As my ISP contract has literally just expired, it's 12 more months of FTTC for me, unless someone (Virgin?) wants to buy me out. (I'll be interested to see how long it takes before they actually offer a service).
The village as a whole is on the Openreach schedule for FTTP provision, with a near but undetermined date. I'd prefer to go with an Openreach-provided connection, since it will be "wholesaled" to multiple potential ISPs, which gives the opportunity to play them off at renewal time. (Virgin only connect to their own equipment).
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