Discussion topic: Open reach full fibre installation issue
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Message posted on 24 Jun 2025 08:42 PM
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Open reach full fibre installation issue
Hello,
wondering if anyone could help / advise. Looking to get sky fibre and today open reach came out and I got the following message from sky :
Openreach has informed us that they currently do not have the equipment in place to connect your Broadband and Talk to your phone exchange. They are looking for the best way to get you connected
has this happened to anyone else before? Never had this sort of issue with virgin media fibre!
thanks in advance 🙂
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Message posted on 24 Jun 2025 09:12 PM - last edited: 24 Jun 2025 09:15 PM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
@Grac2 wrote:
Never had this sort of issue with virgin media fibre!
That's because Virgin owns and runs its own private (and geographically limited) coaxial cable distribution which only it uses: they have relatively little fibre delivery into customer premises. Sky, like most other ISPs, resells service on the national Openreach copper and optical network.
BT Halo 3+ Ultrafast FTTP (500Mbs), BT Smart Hub 2
Message posted on 30 Jun 2025 09:52 PM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
Thank you 🙂
would you know why again today open reach are saying again
Openreach has informed us that they currently do not have the equipment in place to connect your Broadband and Talk to your phone exchange. They are looking for the best way to get you connected
and re looking on the 4th July ?
I am unsure what is going on?!
thanks
Message posted on 30 Jun 2025 10:02 PM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
If it's in the UK, putting the address into the BT Wholesale Availability Checker should indicate which broadband provisioning type is applicable.
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome
It's the table and the two text lines below it which are most useful.
Remove any personal information (such as the address itself) if you post an image.
BT Halo 3+ Ultrafast FTTP (500Mbs), BT Smart Hub 2
Message posted on 01 Jul 2025 05:57 AM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
Thank you for getting back to me,
annoyingly it won't let me print screen but the two sentences after the table say
"Our records show the following FTTP network service information for these premises:-Single Dwelling Unit
Residential UG partial Direct In Ground.
FTTP is available and a new ONT may be ordered."
the table as follows :
Featured Downstream Upstream Downstream Availa
Products
Line
Line Rate
Range
Date
Rate(Mbps)
(Mbps)
(Mbps)
WBC
Up to 1000
Up to
-
Availa
FTTP
220
Other Offerings
VDSL Multicast
Availability Date
Available
Exchange Product Restrictions
Status
FTTP Priority Exchange
N
WLR Withdrawal
Y
SOADSL Restriction
N
Message posted on 01 Jul 2025 06:30 AM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
@Grac2 post the whole table as a screen grab and include tge first two or three lines of the notes.
65inch Sky Glass, 3 Sky Streaming Pucks, Sky Ultrafast + and Sky SR213(white Wifi Max hub) main Wifi from 3 TP-Link Deco M4 units in access point mode
Message posted on 01 Jul 2025 06:48 AM
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Message posted on 01 Jul 2025 07:04 AM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
@Grac2 still only a small part of the table but the notes indicate that the new gibre feed comes from the road underground and will be directly buried in the ground ie there is no existing duct carrying the okd copper cable they can use.
In this case normally a team who handle ground works from Openreach have to dig a slit trench and bury a thin duct from the pavement point to your property which may cross your drive and then make good. Once the duct is in place a second team runs the fibrecable through the new microduct and installs an external plastic box where the street cable terminates and to be connected to the internal feed to the ONT unit in your home. My own install was similar and took multiple visits hopefully your's will be smoother than mine but expect a few weeks delay.
65inch Sky Glass, 3 Sky Streaming Pucks, Sky Ultrafast + and Sky SR213(white Wifi Max hub) main Wifi from 3 TP-Link Deco M4 units in access point mode
Message posted on 01 Jul 2025 07:32 AM
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Re: Open reach full fibre installation issue
That's the issue underground cable direct in ground
the current copper service is a buried armoured cable with no ducting so the delay is while open determine the best way to supply and fit the new full fibre cable
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