Back in May we had BT Openreach chaps checking the ducts and roping in our village ready for FTTP, about a month later we had contractors from Birmingham putting in the fibre in the ducts and also using pole to pole strung fibre with CBT's on poles and in manholes, last week my wife told me there where 3 BT vans around the corner so I put my mask on and went to see what they were doing.
They told me they had just put in the last fibre to another remote farm a few miles outside the village and were connecting it up to the 'Splitter node' that was in one of the manholes that joined to the 'local Node' in the next manhole a few metre's away that is connected to some spare 'Dark' fibre that was installed about 6 years ago when FTTC was put into the village, the 'Head end' is about 12 miles away in the next city.
They also told me the contractors had only half done there job as for weeks there has been CBT's and rolls of fibre hanging off poles on fences that they should have put in and the BT Openreach chaps have had to sort the mess out.
Next week after them doing more more tidying loose ends up they are going to 'Light the fibre up' and start testing and if I am about they will show me what they are doing.
Been waiting 20 years so not long now and I can get a proper modern FTTP internet connection