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[banger]

Had an email from Openreach saying my property is now in the plans for full fibre for my area. Which on the face of it seems good and I have seen digital voice will be coming in June for my area.

My contract with TTB ends in November this year. How long does it take to get from planning to roll out on average?

[dee.jay]

How long is a piece of string?

A lot depends on how your property is fed etc - but I think it's going to be 4-6 months.

[skyeci]

ours was 6 weeks from the cable being laid to being live to order. Then netomnia came along which took 12 months...

[banger]

Thanks all, a bit to wait then.

[dee.jay]

My dad's FTTP took from August to December to get delivered and August was when I saw the cable tied up on the pole that he's fed by..

[dee.jay]

ours was 6 weeks from the cable being laid to being live to order. Then netomnia came along which took 12 months...

Are you underground fed, perchance?

[j0hn]

Which on the face of it seems good and I have seen digital voice will be coming in June for my area.

What do you mean by digital voice coming to your area? Is that VOIP from a particular ISP?

PSTN is already in stop sell. If you want a phone package from your broadband provider then it's already going to have to be VOIP (or what some call digital voice).

Some providers are force migrating existing PSTN customers to VOIP. They can do this in phases, possibly even by area. However there's no specific area by area rollout of VOIP and it has diddly squat to do with Openreach or full fibre.

[banger]

From the OR email.

The option to include a digital phone line and get ahead of the digital phone line upgrade

Then I read elsewhere that PSTN switch off for the North East was roughly June 2024 but before the end of 2025.

Somewhat confused. The June 2024 may have been a Journalist getting it wrong.

[j0hn]

The PSTN stop sell was the same dates nationally. September 2023. The closure is 2025.

Openreach are just adding that info as a selling point by the looks of it but there's no rollout of digital voice.
You could have digital voice on FTTC or FTTP and you could have had it long before the PSTN stop sell/closure.

[tickmike]

 How long does it take to get from planning to roll out on average?

Ours was more than a year, that was two years ago it went live but I keep seeing work still going on to put some parts of our village on even today.

[skyeci]

Are you underground fed, perchance?

yeap. Openreach were here first with their offering. Netomnia laid it shortly afterwards but then left it for months which turned into a year by time it was live.

[dee.jay]

yeap. Openreach were here first with their offering. Netomnia laid it shortly afterwards but then left it for months which turned into a year by time it was live.

Same here, but with the added fun of the houses being direct bury. But fibres are in the chambers now, may be able to order OR soon. I think it is literally a race to which one gets turned on, and I still cannot decide if I want VM or not Symmetric 2Gbps, but do I want to deal with VM..........

[Dwight]

yeap. Openreach were here first with their offering. Netomnia laid it shortly afterwards but then left it for months which turned into a year by time it was live.

No that feeling!