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[Chrysalis]

I think there is still typically ducts even in areas with poles, how they get the cabling around.  For me both CityFibre and Openreach had no street works, they just had to lift some covers and feed it through the ducts, and then the final part when you order FTTP, in my area is from the pole. If you got no poles I assume its then a dig job to get your premises.

[dee.jay]

I'm guessing that the copper might be DIG? There's definitely no ducting from the pavement to where it enters in the house. There is ducting in the pavement, there's a chamber outside the house in the pavement. Would that affect how they deliver fibre? As if it is going to be delivered underground then presumably they will want to put ducting in from the pavement to the house? Would be much easier done by poles, although no idea if that would ever be a possibility. Wouldn't look out of place as the rest of the road has poles, just not the bit I'm on.

Openreach thought my street was DIG. I am firmly of the belief that this was why we were just left abandoned with "No plan" for a long time, whilst the majority of the areas around me where in plan or built. Virgin Media came along and this must have spurred OR into action because they were in and done within a couple of months after VM trenched the pavements. When it came to actually installing it, whilst at the front of the house you don't see the ducting like you get on relatively more modern houses (My house is 30+ years old), they were able to use my copper cable to pull a fibre through. At the time I had already abandoned my copper and had gone full Starlink, so I had no interest in retaining it anyway.

However, there are other folks on the street that have had way more trouble getting OR installed. Some houses have grass/lawn in front so it is fairly trivial for them to install if they have to dig - in our case they were able to pull cable through under the driveway (the entire area in front of our house is patio slabs so we can park our two cars off road) but our neighbours had to have OR dig a hole and dig down to get the fibre installed. Another house has had a new driveway and were told they'd need to dig and they didn't want that - so no FTTP for them.

[Jon21]

The Openreach checker is back to "We're building in this area now". No idea why it keeps chopping and changing but I guess its a guide at best. Has anyone actually seen the "Available to order soon" status? Seems to jump to available to order when its actually ready.

[Chrysalis]

I didnt recall seeing it in my area.  It still said before end of 2026, when they were actively doing works in the area back in early autumn.  I didnt check it very often though, once then, and once again a few days ago after reading Max saying his area was done.

I have seen occasional reports that say it can temporarily say unplanned or something and then suddenly change to available.