Hi Guys, Not exactly a network operational question, but I presume several subscribers will have some experience with this or similar problems from either the provider or consumer perspectives. I hope you don't mind me soliciting some feedback from the community on this one.
Recently CityFibre dug up the streets around here, so I dutifully went to the CityFibre availability checker only to be prompted by a message that read "Unfortunately it looks like we don't have permission from your landlord to install Full Fibre in your property." I own a leasehold in a building owned by a local housing association. I contacted the housing association who manage the building to ask if CityFibre had been in contact with them and if so what the situation was. Their response was "From what I understand we have been speaking with Openreach to provide this service to our blocks and not cityfibre." Following it up resulted in a response making it clear they wanted me to just go away. Recently the housing association has been renovating many of their buildings, and as part of this work have installed ducts to each property which are apparently for fibre. What are the difficulties in making these ducts available to multiple parties? They are basically a tube embedded into the cladding that terminates in a box. CityFibre are currently rolling out city-wide at a breathtaking pace, whereas OpenReach has a build date of "between now and december 2026" on their website - how likely is it that OpenReach will build out to a significant portion of the area by the end of 2026? Any arguments I can put to the housing association for why they should consider letting CityFibre into their properties would be appreciated. I have looked at several of the packages offered by providers on the CityFibre network and they do look appealing! Thanks, - Mike Jones AS206671 PS. Why do I want fibre? Because I still get excited when I see 100MB/s+ download speeds at the office... Also something about being a property owner and "one of the few properties in the area without fibre" not being a good selling point. Mostly the first one though!
