Your anger is justified, but it is pointed in the wrong direction.
Your developer ordered a copper only service when they built your home, and that's what OpenReach installed.
They ordered FTTP for the new phase and that's what OpenReach installed.
OpenReach are no more obligated to provide you with SuperFast broadband than Virgin or CityFibre are.
Why are you not mad at them for not providing you this?
I'd be grateful OpenReach are covering me when nobody else will.
I'd be annoyed my developer was so short sighted and wouldn't contribute to FTTC or FTTP.
Thanks both of you. I can assure you that I am equally as exasperated with the developer. However at this moment in time I have formally contracted with Openreach. I do feel guilty that I am holding them solely responsible for the situation when a number of timing factors are involved - e.g BDUK plans drawn up pre my development, FTTP not being a default offering in 2014, FTTP then being a default offering in 2016 and so on. One thing I can tell you truthfully is that it is certainly a situation I have done my best to overcome and is not of my doing. The cabinet serving my property was the only one not to be upgraded in 2014 by BDUK, as at this time there were only 25 properties on the PCP. Doubly ironically, It was thought best for BDUK to provide these old (not new build) homes with FTTP, as this would be cheaper than installing a DSLAM to just serve 25 people. That was prior to the 375 homes built in 2015 with copper. And then came Fibre First for the second phase of new build. I’m on a copper island!
My developer have claimed that in 2014 when they were ordering telephony provision for the site, Openreach still only installed copper by default. FTTP was available but at many many more times the cost, and wasn’t considered by any developer at the time. However the new homes I allude to opposite me were planned in 2016, when Openreach’s focus shifted to their Fibre first programme and hence subsidised the cost of FTTP to bring it in line with Copper.
So - 3 stories from 3 different organisations - Developer, BDUK, Openreach. Who do you fancy believing today?