topic Re: Project Gigabit in Broadband

Project Gigabit

DMo — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:11:19 GMT

I had someone from ee knock my door talking about replacing cabling and booking engineers to do the work. It was to be done under the government's Project Gigabit scheme and that sky are using ee's cables and whatnot. I told him that I would be waiting until I hear from sky themselves. Anyone else had this before?

Re: Project Gigabit

GD1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:21:18 GMT

@DMo Sky don't use EE network or cables, they use the Openreach Network & more recently CityFibre.

Re: Project Gigabit

JimM1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:22:31 GMT

@DMo The EE sales rep if he was an official one and that is not guaranteed was talking a load off rubish, EE do not have any cables whatsoever, all the infrastructure is by OR (Openreach) which a lot of ISP's sky,EE,BT,Plusnet etc use to get the Broadband delivered to the home, chancer was just trying to get a jump on signing you up to them! Promise the earth and just about anything else to get the sale!

Project is on going but sign up to the OR Fibre checker if you do wish to keep an eye on when/if it is available and couple months after that all will begin to sell it!. Fibre Checker

Re: Project Gigabit

TimmyBGood — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:33:13 GMT

@DMo wrote:

It was to be done under the government's Project Gigabit scheme

That's somewhat unlikely: while Project Gigabit is a thing, it's specifically addressing a very limited number of locations outside of the commercial Openreach project (which intends to cover 85% of UK addresses) and there's a considerable bureaucratic process involving individual voucher applications to qualify.