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[Jon21]

Noticed last night that there was a 2 man crew looking at the Openreach chambers, lifting the lids etc, along the road. Didn’t think much of it until they came back a short time later and opened the chamber outside the house in the pavement. They had an engine powered reel (not sure what the correct name is) that they were hooking some blue rope on to. This eventually pulled through some plastic tubing through the duct, couldn’t have been much more than an inch in diameter. As far as I can tell, that was left in the chamber and then the lid put back on. Probably took about 30 minutes to do. Is this part of the the FTTP build? The area is in the December 2024 Full Fibre Programme update, as being started within 12 months. Wasn’t expecting it to be potentially starting so soon though.

[Chrysalis]

Sounds like it, and I have read multiple reports in the past where OR announce an area and then very quickly after work is being done.

[Jon21]

Are the fibres then pulled through the plastic tubing? I’m guessing that there might eventually be more equipment in the chamber. It’s one of those double lid ones. I think most of the houses around here are direct in ground. There doesn’t appear to be any ducting from the pavement to the house. Interestingly, I did enquire using the availability checker and have had a provisional date of end of October. Virgin contract is up in August so might potentially be good timing.

[Jon21]

Not seen any further progress since. There is a spot marked up on the road a couple of junctions up, with O.R. Guessing it’s probably for a blocked duct as it’s close to a chamber. Occasionally check one.network/BIDB/mast database to see if there’s any works coming up. Seem to be doing a lot of work around Wellington, Oakengates and St.Georges at the moment, so maybe waiting until that is finished before starting in depth here.

[dee.jay]

Keep an eye on it, but sounds promising indeed. I was told December 2026, then all of a sudden had an e-mail telling me it'd be 6 months. I saw engineers out around all the chambers in the street that same week and was able to order FTTP within a month of that. Building an entire full fibre network is hard.. it takes time But, a promising sign!!