Do Openreach and Netomia etc. avoid building in Virgin areas?

Goose

Goose

Goose

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As far as I can tell there are no full fibre plans for my area despite it being a large residential area in Kent’s largest town. I’m just wondering if this simply because Virgin have been here for decades and no one can be bothered building here to try and compete?
 
Not in my case or my parents. There are loads of members on here who have jumped ship from VM to Openreach/altnet providers, including me.
 
We were a Virgin area since NTLWorld days, Openreach added fibre to our telegraph poles a year or so ago and CityFibre recently laid their fibre also, so no I don't think it stops them.
 
Yea we have had openreach FTTP for a few years, then very recently gigaclear have come round doing the same thing, for some odd reason.
 
Goose said:
As far as I can tell there are no full fibre plans for my area despite it being a large residential area in Kent’s largest town. I’m just wondering if this simply because Virgin have been here for decades and no one can be bothered building here to try and compete?
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Not as far as I’m aware. Virgin isn’t actually all that amazing in some ways, especially for business, and I believe Openreach have some form of Universal Service Obligation so I don’t think I’ve ever been in a business or domestic property where an Openreach connection of some type wasn’t available.
 
The current Openreach services might be direct buried, which explains why no altnet is interested either.
 
Our property doesn't appear to be connected to a telegraph pole so I guess our connection is underground. Don't know if that makes it more or less likely we'll get FTTP?
 
I'm using both VM and OR FTTP services and OR only installed FTTP earlier this year after VM being in the area for several decades.
 
Goose said:
Because i’m quite thick I dont really know how to use that site.
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Put your post code in / move the map to your area and under Service Providers on the right leave the mouse over any listed at the top bit shown as Live and it'll show a blob for each post code where they have at least one customer. The roadworks bit at the top is handy to know which ISPs are building in the area, so will be an option soon.

One.network is a good site for looking further ahead for road works as you can see the next 12 months (change this in the top left).
 
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