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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[hmm forgive the autorotation. it’s straight when I upload it.]
…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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Not heard from them but I’ve noticed some new fibre boxes on various telegraph poles around me. They are alot lower than the BT ones.
Here’s one near me on Como Road. If you look closely it says community fibre on the label
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Some guys laying cable along existing channels in Devonshire this week, they said it’s for BT.
Checking my postcode on Community Fibre’s homepage now gets me ‘Great news, we’re bringing full fibre broadband to you within the next few months.’, compared to the prior generic ‘we’re building our network’ message. I’ve been checking regularly for a while so this is definitely a recent development!
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Community Fibre has been working on the corner of Lowther Hill and Brockley Rise for the last few days:
Edit - and siimilar work on the corner of Agnew Road and Brockley Rise.
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We had ours installed today - Vancouver Rd. Called Wednesday, installed today and 1st 6 months free for Black Friday special. Gone from EE upload of 2 mbs to 530 mbs. Plus coverage in entire flat. Happy days
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I have! Hoping ‘soon’ is, well, soon and not many months.
Where are you roughly? More HOP or FH end? I am praying but nothing here so far.
FH, fairly close to the station (Signal/Sainsbury’s side).
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I was on the waiting list and just got my phone call to say they are ready on Como Road and I signed up
Installer coming Thursday
49£ 1gb up. 1gb down
6 months free.
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We’re just on David’s Road, near the Signal.
I’m hoping soon is soon as well!
How long were you on the waiting list out of interest?