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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 30/1/2025

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Strange how some areas still don't have full fibre. We are in a village and have had full fibre for at least 20 years, yet parts of the nearest town only about 3 miles away still don't have it.

Ours was put in by a company called CableTel, who got taken over by NTL World, who were taken over by Virgin Media. We have 250mb but we could have at least 4 times that if we asked for it. No modifications would be needed at our end. No point though as there would probably be no advantage given our own ancient equipment. Our own computers are probably slower than our internet connection.

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Quote: Originally posted by daveyjp on 30/1/2025

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 30/1/2025

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Strange how some areas still don't have full fibre. We are in a village and have had full fibre for at least 20 years, yet parts of the nearest town only about 3 miles away still don't have it.

Ours was put in by a company called CableTel, who got taken over by NTL World, who were taken over by Virgin Media. We have 250mb but we could have at least 4 times that if we asked for it. No modifications would be needed at our end. No point though as there would probably be no advantage given our own ancient equipment. Our own computers are probably slower than our internet connection.

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Cabletel/NTL wasn't quite full fibre. It was fibre to cabinet, the final connection still being copper. We had it for about 25 years.

Then Cityfibre installed cable two years ago offering fibre to the premises and we moved to them as Virgin wanted silly money. I've just started reviewing Cityfibre ISP tariffs and the increase in providers and subsequent price drop in two years is dramatic, as has speed increase. For what I pay for 500meg I can now get 2gb and we can now get speeds up to 2.5gb.

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Quote: Originally posted by Bridlington on 31/1/2025

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We are with talktalk and they ran cable to the house and it feeds into a little black box on the wall. When the 4 green lights are on it is working. City fibre fitted it.
Never had any bother really. Land line is mainly nuisance calls.
Talktalk sent us a email giving us 3 options.
Keep landlines
Get rid of landlines
And a other.
Thinking about going with getting rid of landlines.
Don'understand all this viop stuff.

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Quote: Originally posted by Bridlington on 31/1/2025

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We are with talktalk and they ran cable to the house and it feeds into a little black box on the wall. When the 4 green lights are on it is working. City fibre fitted it.
Never had any bother really. Land line is mainly nuisance calls.
Talktalk sent us a email giving us 3 options.
Keep landlines
Get rid of landlines
And a other.
Thinking about going with getting rid of landlines.
Don'understand all this viop stuff.

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 01/2/2025

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I'm not really sure who owns our cable. It was put in by a company that no longer exists but the service was eventually taken over by Virgin. No idea who to ask either.

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Quote: Originally posted by Ina on 02/2/2025

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We've had full fibre via BT for well over a year now, so looked up Cityfibre out of interest as our contract finishes later this year. When I put our postcode in I got a message saying "Thanks for your interest, we haven't planned your area at the moment".
I don't understand that, I know that this area has full fibre, so could it be that's because they haven't installed it? I've seen on Cityfibre's list that BT isn't one of the providers on there.

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Quote: Originally posted by daveyjp on 02/2/2025

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 01/2/2025

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I'm not really sure who owns our cable. It was put in by a company that no longer exists but the service was eventually taken over by Virgin. No idea who to ask either.

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From your previous post re Cabletel it will now be a Virgin cable, they took over Cabletel and NTL services.

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Quote: Originally posted by daveyjp on 02/2/2025.

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Your BT service will be over Openreach fibre network (which is the old BT network, but they had to split the business).

Cityfibre are a rival to Openreach and have laid a separate fibre network across large mainly urban areas of the country. BT may well be a internet service provider over Cityfibre network. Cityfibre however do have access to the old BT telegraph poles (now Openreach) and ducts for the final connection to properties.

Think of it like a railway.   Openreach, Cityfibre provide their tracks, you can then choose which train you want to provide a service over those tracks.

There are other similar fibre companies such as BRSK that provide their own network of cables. They provided fibre to quite a rural village not far from me and they needed a 40% take up rate. As they were the only full fibre provider it was 80% of addresses within weeks.

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