Just a question here I would like to ask please and hopefully some one will know.
How come me and my family keep seeing about 5 or 6 if not more Openreach Vans and about 8 plus Openreach Engineers at the top of our road which is the old London main road? We have being seeing Openreach Vans most days for I think in the last few weeks. Is Openreach upgrading Spooner Row to Ultrafast Fibre and that's why we keep seeing Openreach Vans? If not does any one on here know when Spooner Row will be upgraded to Ultrafast Fibre please? Thank you once again for taking the time to read my post and once again I look forward to your replies.
THANK YOU
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Anonymous
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RE: A Question about all the Openreach Vans me and my family keep seeing here every day and a Question about Ultrafast F
it seems a bit odd that there are numerous Openreach vans and engineers on the London Road for the last few weeks. It could be something to do with the new housing further along London Road at Suton, or maybe its for the traveller site.
I doubt they are installing ultrafast fibre to Spooner Row as we only had fibre broadband installed about 4 years ago. It took years of campaigning to get them to upgrade from the old super-slow copper wire.
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Robert Foster
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RE: A Question about Openreach Vans and Ultrafast Broadband
I think this activity is linked to the new development further towards Wymondham and the Abbey Road roundabout.
With reference to your question regarding ultrafast broadband, the short answer is not yet. I had cause to speak with my contact at Better Broadband for Norfolk recently and we discussed the Governments "Project Gigabit" and its likely impact closer to home. An element within Project Gigabit is to address the 20% of properties missed under previous broadband delivery projects but it is still accepted that 1% will not get fast broadband. This project is currently in phase 1b, the open market review will run to mid July. Thereafter the public consultation will run from mid August for 1 month. This then leads into the procurement phase earmarked for February 2022 and lasting 18 weeks. Which brings us to contracts being awarded in June 2022 and infrastructure delivery sometime February 2023. Experience with Openreach and other broadband partners has taught me that these dates are likely to drift, so they are meant as a guide only.
Message me via the Community Council website, www.spoonerrow.cc, and I will add you to the residents list interested in ultrafast. The more names the better.
