In Summer last year I entered my address into the Openreach fibre checker at https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker and it said "Build planned between now and Dec-2026"
Last October I got an email from Openreach saying "We’ve added your area to our build plans and we’re on course to deliver Ultrafast Full Fibre to <my address> by Dec/2023". I checked the Openreach fibre checker and it said "Build planned between now and Dec-2023".
According to the one.network site used by the utility companies, Openreach were due to be working in our road at the beginning of December 2023. Nobody turned up and the work was then postponed to the second week in December, then the third week, then just before Christmas, then the first week of January 2024 and now that has been cancelled and no new information is available for the next 12 months.
In the second week a contractor turned up and installed 2 new telegraph poles for Openreach, one on each end of our street.
Just before Christmas another contractor cabled up 3 of the poles in our street and installed CBTs. A big reel of cable was left unconnected halfway up a pole in the middle of the street.
Now the Openreach fibre checker just says "Not yet available" and gives no indication of when the work might be completed.
The BT Wholesale checker at https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome just says "FTTP is not available". It is currently available in most of the neighbouring streets.
A few months ago a notice went up on a lamp post saying the they wanted to install another telegraph pole on the pavement near 2 houses but that has not been done.
Does anyone know what "Not yet available" means. Does it mean they have given up or it might be soon?
If a resident objects to the installation of a new pole, which delays the work, can this stop it or can Openreach just install it anyway?
For context our road consists mostly of 1930's semis and has poles down one side for telephone and the other side for electricity. In a few places the telephone lines are sharing the electricity pole rather than having a pole just for telephone.
