Fibre Broadband

[Old Cruser]

Will anyone benefit from the Fibre Broadband which Derbyshire are putting in.
We won't and my connections a bit slow at times - ah well maybe next year eh

[Fly]

The connection is there, that's the upside.
Downside is paying someone to connect you too it. BT, TalkTalk etc. At a cost !!

[Old Cruser]

Not in our area yet Fly - how much does it cost bto connect
Any idea?

[Fly]

That, at this time of night, I don't know OC ,LOL 

[Big Dave]

The cabinet in the street that serves your house has to be replaced by a new one first. Until that's done there's no chance of the faster broadband. I asked Openreach (the wholesale arm of BT) when mine was going to be done and they told me it wasn't financially viable so they'd no plans to do it - the cabinet serves 74 houses less than ten years old and less than a mile from the main Chesterfield exchange.
I then contacted CBC and DCC. No reply from the three CBC councillors and DCC just waffled, saying they'd consider adding it to their future roll-out programme if funding allowed.
I wonder how many other homes and businesses in Chesterfield are in a 'superfast broadband black hole'? It's a disgraceful situation, CBC should be ashamed.

[Slacker]

On the plus side Chesterfield is well served by 3G and even 4G in places.

Been to many holiday destinations in UK and trying to get internet on the phone is hopeless.

Not sure why you are blaming CBC though. I know DCC has some say in approving cabinets but they would not get turned down unless causing an obstruction

[Spire]

Well I feel for you not having fibre, I have had fibre for about a couple of years now and I would be very unhappy to lose it, if I were moving house I would be looking for a house where fibre was available.

Found this reply to a question about why fibre was not coming to a cabinet in London

Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband at Lords exchange cabinet WE/WLOR 47. Our deployment is based on the commercial criteria for each cabinet and your cabinet fails to meet the commercial criteria. This is because the cabinet has too few premise connected to it, rendering it too small to provide a return on the investment based on the costs for the construction and on-going running costs of providing a new FTTC cabinet. When calculating the commercial viability of cabinet areas we take many factors into account. These include ensuring that we locate the cabinets in accordance with all national and local planning laws, ensuring that the cabinet does not obstruct pedestrians or provide a danger to all road-users. We must ensure that the DSLAM is located within 100m of its associated telephony connection cabinet and that there is adequate access to power and existing telephony infrastructure. To further enable the location of the DSLAM, we must accurately survey for underground structure and obstacles etc.
We do look at the demographic nature of the potential customers within a cabinets working area, however, we focus on the amount of connected lines at the time and not the potential expansion within a cabinet area as this is not guaranteed - this is the most efficient way to deploy fibre broadband whilst keeping within our finite budget. As such we look at the potential return for our investment over quite a number of years, with the prospective number of take up of the service being a large percentage of households.

Where cabinets are not in our footprint, or are not commercially viable, it is worth contacting your London Assembly Member or local council to register your interest in case any government funding becomes available to help fund deployment.

You may also wish to lobby your Assembly Member or local councillor on progress gaining funding for such deployment from the Government. You can also register your interest on the Openreach website at;  http://www.openreachfibrebroadband.co.uk/expression-gen.aspx

Please note, the telephony network over which fibre broadband is bespoke, as such, all premise are served from dedicated distribution points which are connected via their own underground duct network either directly to the exchange or to telephony cabinets. There are no interconnections that can be utilised to give fibre broadband services between cabinets, therefore, I’m afraid we technically can’t move your service. In addition, it is not Openreach policy to rearrange the network to enable services where they are not currently available, which is what would occur if your service was moved.

[handy]

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband
Current prices are here with option to put your phone number in to see if its in your area ,we have just got it and all we had to pay was a one off payment £6.99 for delivery of the new router , I did get caller display free for 12 months and am on Unlimited BT Infinity 2 I did it over the phone (talked to a human mentioned I wanted to leave ) cost £78 a month but other charges will be on top phone calls etc last phone bill was £128 just in this week.
You can do it online there are some offers of a Sainbury's voucher etc but seems to be a connection fee as well around £30

 

[Old Cruser]

This is the letter which instigated my post.



More than 2,000 Derbyshire homes and businesses get access to fibre broadband and new areas announced
20 June 2014

Around 2,200 businesses and homes now have access to faster internet connections as a result of the first phase of the Digital Derbyshire superfast broadband roll-out being completed.

Businesses in Markham Vale together with properties in areas of Bolsover, Tibshelf, Holmewood, Ilkeston and Alfreton can now access fibre-broadband thanks to 16 new green roadside cabinets going live in recent weeks.

It is the latest development as part of the £27.67 million Digital Derbyshire project led by us in partnership with the UK Government and BT to extend access to fibre broadband to more than 95% of Derbyshire's businesses and residents by the end of 2016.

Next to benefit will be businesses and homes in areas of Darley Dale, Bakewell, Ambergate and Repton when further cabinets are switched on over the next two months.

And work is continuing to upgrade Grindleford Exchange, making fibre broadband available to more than 1,600 properties in Hathersage, Grindleford and Hope Valley by autumn 2014.

Councillor Joan Dixon, our Cabinet Member for Jobs, Economy and Transport, said:

We're pressing ahead with our three-year project to bring faster broadband speeds to Derbyshire.

"This investment will open up endless business and leisure opportunities and will help to boost our rural areas, support economic growth and allow local communities to continue to thrive.

"Whether it's for business, shopping, education or socialising, the internet plays such a huge part of daily life for many of us and that will only grow in the future. That's why we've been driving this project forward to boost the local economy by closing the digital divide which has left many areas of Derbyshire behind when commercial operators rolled out broadband services."

Digital Derbyshire aims to build on the private sector's roll-out of fibre broadband on a phase by phase basis until the end of 2016. BT's network is open meaning Derbyshire households and businesses benefit from a choice of communications providers operating in a highly competitive market.

Rob Shakespeare, BT's contract manager for Digital Derbyshire, said:

We're delighted to reach this milestone. The first phase of the project has been very successful and we're building on this momentum as we continue will the roll-out at pace."

BT is contributing £12.87m to the project while the county council is contributing £4.9m. A further £7.4m is coming from the Government's Broadband Delivery UK funds, as well as £2.5m from the European Regional Development Fund.

Did you know….?

Engineers from Openreach, BT's local network division, are expected to spend more than 68,000 hours planning and building the network for Digital Derbyshire.
Around 750,000 metres of optical fibre will be laid in Derbyshire.
Around 445 new green fibre broadband cabinets will be installed at roadsides throughout the county.
Fibre to cabinet technology can deliver wholesale downstream speeds of up to 80Mbps and upstream speeds of up to 20Mbps.
Superfast broadband benefits include users being able to use multiple bandwidth-hungry applications at the same time and sending and receiving large amounts of data much more quickly and efficiently.
Cables laid as part of the Digital Derbyshire project contain between 12 and 500 fibres.
Each fibre is the width of a human hair and each one is encased before it's placed inside the cable.





2014
More than 2,000 Derbyshire homes and businesses get access to fibre broadband and new areas announced
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