So, fibre cable laid to door, what happens next?

bazzabear · 6 Jul 2020 at 22:35

Looking at my curent bill, I'm theoretically paying £59.75 a month for FTTC - "Fibre 2".

I say theoretically, because it's discounted to £27.33 in practice.

But that suggests that there might not be such as big a step up in price as I was assuming.

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Jul 2020 at 00:24

So, fibre cable laid to door, what happens next?

The fibre cable will knock on your door, demanding you make it a cuppa tea.

After it’s had a cuppa tea you will be automatically upgraded to the fastest internet in the worldz.

Quartz · 7 Jul 2020 at 11:17

Bad @mrbell1984, bad!

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Jul 2020 at 11:55

Quartz said:
Bad @mrbell1984, bad!

lltfdaniel · 7 Jul 2020 at 13:03

Quartz · 11 Sep 2020 at 18:07

So it's been two months and nothing has happened.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Sep 2020 at 21:53

Quartz said:
So it's been two months and nothing has happened.

What does the fox say?

Caged · 11 Sep 2020 at 22:29

There's a postcode checker on the Cityfibre page now, what does it say?

https://www.cityfibre.com/residential/

Quartz · 11 Sep 2020 at 23:20

Caged said:
There's a postcode checker on the Cityfibre page now, what does it say?

https://www.cityfibre.com/residential/

It says that they are ccurrently installing fibre in my area. Just as it did two months ago. They're installing it on behalf of Vodaphone and they won't offer me gigabit either.

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Sep 2020 at 07:03

Quartz said:
It says that they are ccurrently installing fibre in my area. Just as it did two months ago. They're installing it on behalf of Vodaphone and they won't offer me gigabit either.

So they are still installing it then.

Turn · 14 Sep 2020 at 06:48

Just check Vodafone's site every week or so, I've found the notification thing that's meant to email you when it becomes available doesn't even work... Didn't for me anyway.
And any hope in asking Vodafone's support reps for estimation is completely pointless... Hard to get an answer in first place, and when you do it's completely wrong.

Michael Myers · 14 Sep 2020 at 09:30

If it helps cityfibre laid it here in Northampton around June and i was able to order on the 1 sept and its now in my house and working.

the-evaluator · 14 Sep 2020 at 09:52

JimJ said:
It never became available for me, but some of my neighbours could order. I had to contact Openreach support. Think it was a data entry error - took three months of me pestering them and now I have 500 down, 70 up

That's not relevant to the OP's situation, they're talking about CityFibre which doesn't use the Openreach infrastructure.