FTTP has relatively recently been installed in the area - Norwich City Centre - I've counted a few hundred ports on CBTs on walls and poles, with more arriving as time goes by.
I was in there like a shot getting connected up, and loving my 900/115 Zen connection. I'm in a private courtyard that luckily got connected in the process, with an underground 8 port CBT in a new chamber.
A bit surprisingly to me though, I'm yet to see a single connection to any of the new CBTs. Not one. Admittedly, we have pretty good VDSL - most get 80/20 - and there is Virgin Cable in the area too (though I couldn't get due to courtyard location). One street down from me has G.Fast, which has just been overbuilt for many premises with FTTP. But still, I'd have thought at least some would have signed up.
On that basis, although I'm immensely pleased for myself to have the service, I can't help but think it's been a waste of OR's time. Perhaps their hope is they pull back some high-speed customers from Virgin (not really sure that will fly though, I get the feeling that for most, telephony is a secondary reason to have Virgin). Or maybe stop migration to altnets like Cityfibre, who are supposed to be coming to town.
Whichever way, I feel a bit sorry for folk who are struggling in a not-spot. While I'm sure the installations here were comparatively easy, there have still been many man teams out for many days and evenings in the last year. Given the lack of it seems interest from locals in the service, I'm not sure it wouldn't have been better invested elsewhere.