I will be honest guys, I feel a little bit down about whats going on round here at the moment, I live within a mile of a city centre in a highly populated area and still no FTTP here. Cityfibre confirmed they not activating any new postcodes in the entire city for at least another 9 months and wouldnt tell me why, but did say my area will be in the first batch when they resume.
On the other side of the park CF has been active for a while, extremely close. They came from that direction then just u turned.
There is a provider called glide which seems to be a provider that works with owners of large rental estates, I see they have enabled new apartments built right in the city centre area.
Hyperoptic shoved a leaflet through my door inviting me to register, which I did. But that resulted in a "not yet" on their checker with nothing else mentioned.
Grain did works on streets on other side of my main road, although have yet to activate those properties (similar issues to CF) and no plans for my address.
I feel paying £60 (could drop to £50 by regrading) for 80mbit FTTC is just so outdated and bad value now, even if I Was paying £30-40 on a cheaper provider it wouldnt make me feel much better, so I feel I am now hovering close to VM's rolling contract 350mbit service circa £50 month and just praying its usable in the evenings, combining that with a VPN for static IP ACL's and a HE tunnel for IPv6. I noticed EE mobile broadband feels like an upgrade which shows how far down fixed line broadband has fallen compared to wireless technologies. (FTTP only counts when its available). Latest I hear on VM their new better superhub still not been rolled out en masse.
So thats my thought process at the moment, I would say the chance currently is better than 50/50 for me to give VM another shot.
I am of course have been looking to move for over a year now as well, and have been preparing for it, so another reason for the rolling contract.
