Anyone else on #giganet? It appears they are kicking everyone on a #openreach#fttp connection off (transferring to ‘home telecom’). Sceptical of new provider - seems a low cost outfit. So who next. Ideally want a provide that will let me switch open reach->cityfibre once cabled up (house in plan, I’d expect it within 6-12 months)
The FT is reporting that Altnets are having some trouble competing with #OpenReach & in some cases are cutting back development or merging (consolidation);
however, other than mentioning one Altnet that has 'community' in its name, the analysis misses the utilisation of community effort to bring #broadband to 'uneconomic' areas;
#B4RN (our local community project) has much higher % take-up than the altnets, not least due to its business model.
OpenReach said they would send a team out to fix my dead phone line and 'Superslow' broadband at 8:30 am today. So far - no show Poor service #OpenReach
A question for people who know about old British telecom wiring… I live in an 1880s terraced house in Brighton. There’s an old cable that runs from this "thing" on our northern neighbour’s side of the chimney, over our roof, our neighbour to the south’s roof and to another similar shaped "thing" on the next chimney.
All neighbours are pretty sure it’s not connected to anything in any houses - but can we cut it and be safe?!
Continuing the "why can't I get #FTTP when there's lit fibre right outside my gate" saga...
A couple of #openreach engineers turned up today so I went out for a chat. Yes, there is lit fibre right outside my house and what's there is the main junction for the cable going North back to the exchange, into the two villages East and West and then down to multiple villages to the South.
The engineers had turned up today to patch in a new customer in the village to the South.
Can someone give me a TL;DR on porting landline numer to voip but keeping landline with my current #ISP I can see there might be potential issues, I'm just not sure of the process and if I've thought about all the potential problems.
Just under 24 hours to go until #openreach#WLR3 (analogue voice lines) are no longer available for new supply. Will be the beginning of the end of an era, in just over 2 years time then WLR3 will be gone for good on all lines.
Today has started out well, it can surely only go downhill from here. #Openreach engineer turned up outside my house this morning. Went out for a chat. Turned out he's a #fibre splicer connecting up a node right outside our drive with fibre running all over the place from there. He's already confirmed we have a lit feed from the exchange. Yay. He should be done in three days and then hand over to OR for commissioning. We should be able to order #FTTP within a fortnight. Double-plus yay!