Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Had contractors turn up out of the blue about eight weeks ago to dig a fibre-optic cable down from the village to my farmyard. I never asked anyone for this but I’m very pleased that they’ve done so. It’s about three quarters of a kilometre and because they could not source wire armoured cable, they lay overhead cable in a 4” plastic pipe conduit with manholes for access every 200m or so.
Anyhow, they’ve done the job and connected to terminals at either end, one in my yard and one near the top of my lane where there is active fibre.
Thing is, OpenReach still have my place listed on their web site as having no plans to connect to fibre. BT nor any other provider will connect us until OpenReach has listed my place as being ready. It’s been ten days since the contractors finished and did their quality audit yet still the OpenReach website says there are ‘no plans’.
What’s the point? Since I already have 4G wi-fi, which is mostly fast enough but disappointingly unreliable, I could just ignore the FTTP and stay as I am. This would waste what probably cost the taxpayer about £10k to provide even though it is unsolicited. I’m in two minds whether to bother to connect of not or wait until I have to in a few year’s time when the copper system is switched off nationally and all calls become VOIP.
Anyhow, they’ve done the job and connected to terminals at either end, one in my yard and one near the top of my lane where there is active fibre.
Thing is, OpenReach still have my place listed on their web site as having no plans to connect to fibre. BT nor any other provider will connect us until OpenReach has listed my place as being ready. It’s been ten days since the contractors finished and did their quality audit yet still the OpenReach website says there are ‘no plans’.
What’s the point? Since I already have 4G wi-fi, which is mostly fast enough but disappointingly unreliable, I could just ignore the FTTP and stay as I am. This would waste what probably cost the taxpayer about £10k to provide even though it is unsolicited. I’m in two minds whether to bother to connect of not or wait until I have to in a few year’s time when the copper system is switched off nationally and all calls become VOIP.