Does anyone have a map of where this installation will cover?
I messaged Community Fibre on Twitter to ask about my road specifically and they confirmed it, though they didn’t get into specific dates. May be worth doing the same (or emailing) to check.
I’m not sure where a lot of you are getting the Openreach information. Devonshire Road, forest hill end has been FTTP for ten years.
As in wired up directly to the house for 300+mb
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Openreach info from here:
Aren’t City fibre and community fibre two different things though?
Ahh, sorry — that’s what I meant! Edited accordingly.
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Checked my postcode (just off Stanstead Road) on the Community Fibre site and it said “… we’re bring full fibre cable to you within the next few months.” VirginMedia hasn’t been bad here in terms of service availability, but speeds have been mediocre. I’ll be happy to sign up for something better.
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There is also good news if you’re up Kirkdale and up near the top of Dartmouth Road.
I’ve seen workmen working on the cable boxes and laying cable underground towards the end of this week and this weekend.
Today I spotted the Community Fibre logo on one of the vests of the workmen which means we finally have an alternative to Virgin Fibre in this area.
I’m glad this is happening as I’ve been searching for an alternative to Virgin as their service has been awful the last 6 months and sadly BT don’t want to extend their Fibre - welcome to the area Community Fibre, lets hope the prices are competitive!
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Has anyone heard anymore about this in terms of timescales or been able to place an order?
I registered an interest on their site, but haven’t heard anything yet.
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Yep – I registered interest a while back and got a couple of sales calls but haven’t heard anything since.
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Community Fibre have already installed their kit on the Southwark side where they have up to 3GB download speed.
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Has anyone heard anymore? I tried to register my interest but the website keeps falling over.
I’d walk barefeet over broken glass to finally get any sort of Fibre to my part of Devonshire Road. Every time my wife does a Teams call my connection just falls apart - not great since I work in IT!
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I’m in the same boat! Just moved in on the south end of Devonshire. No current fibre connection due to BT/Openreach decision not to connect multi-dwelling units (or so I gathered from other forum posts). Can currently only get the “up to 17Mbps” download speeds from any provider (we’ve looked into them all) and the abysmal 1Mbps upload, which just won’t work for video calls while working from home. So we’re currently hotspotting our mobile plans, but they can be spotty for us, so certainly not feeling like a long-term solution. Really hoping that something comes of all this!
I’m sure I read a post from someone living in a multi-dwelling unit on Devonshire Road, some time back, indicating there is a team you can speak to that can get homes like that hooked up to fibre.
Openreach have been adamant with me that they’re not planning on doing MDUs on Devonshire Road anytime soon. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is that they won’t upgrade our cabinet to FTTC because we’re now an FTTP area, but they won’t install FTTP because we’re an MDU. It leaves people like us in an utter state of limbo.
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I can completely understand your frustration. I did manage to find the post where someone in an MDU had managed to get fibre installed to themselves and their neighbours, so it might be worth pursuing this approach, if you haven’t tried it already:
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…oooh I wonder if that’s what this is on Waldenshaw too. I would love some FTTP
I’ve called Community Fibre a couple of times previously to clarify their plans, and both times I got a fairly vague answer that left me uncertain whether they were even coming to the area. Thankfully today I got a very helpful lady who said that not only were they definitely coming, but they’ve secured wayleave (which is apparently the longest part of the process) and so although she couldn’t give me an exact timeframe, I got an impression that it’d be sooner rather than later.
I have no idea whether wayleave is granted on a street-by-street basis or if they can get blanket permission for X number of streets from the council or etc — maybe someone else here may be more clued up process wise. In any case, if anyone is curious about their street’s status, I’d recommend giving Community Fibre a call to clarify. Progress!
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