damienirel wrote: » So they start in September and expect to have 100k accessible fibre homes by March. I'll believe it when I see it. This is the same crowd who provide me with 2mbs - ist don't think so.
rob808 wrote: » well Notting set in stone they could end finishing by April.I know it a pain waiting on it I'm on 3mb myself but at least you have FTTH at some stage better than waiting on NBP.
damienirel wrote: » Now the real fibre connections?
Gonzo wrote: » hopefully I'll start to see the wiring process in a few weeks. Most of the ground work is done between the last FTTC cabinet and my home. Ducting work started early April, then they came back 3 weeks ago and uncovered more manholes while routing tubing and last week they placed wider than normal metal holders up the side of certain poles where they uncovered manholes. The black tubing from underground is now run up through these metal holders and dangling at the top of them waiting to be connected to something else.
damienirel wrote: » Would be good to see some progress somewhere in the country. Just seems to be a waiting game for the last few months on the FTTH aspect.
Gonzo wrote: » back in early April when work first started here I thought that by this stage, I'd nearly be up and running and lots of areas with extensive work done, some areas close to completion. I think everywhere is still at the ground work stage, I don't think any wiring has taken place anywhere just yet. To date anything I've seen or heard about has been: Surveying, hedge cutting, ducting, manholes, pole checking and pole replacement. Also I would have expected by now some sort of notice on Eir's FTTH line checker for the first 100,000 premises. Eir knows exactly which premises/lines are included in the first 100,000. Some sort of notice like fiber coming soon would be good and at least confirm who is getting it. The sooner FTTC is finished the better, at this stage all of the wiring for the locations announced in the first 100,000 homes has yet to start and its already first week of August. I really don't see them meeting the March 2017 deadline at this rate unless the wiring process is much quicker than I think it is and they don't run into severe weather over the winter.
damienirel wrote: » My guess is they are waiting on the NBP bid. This blue line stuff is gonna happen but it's just a case of who's gonna fund it.
pcuser wrote: » My Local exchange is being upgraded at the moment in Milltown Co Kerry. How do you find out if it is FTTC or FTTH. I have contacted Eir but no one seems to know.
MIK1_E01 Fibre Build commenced - completion work is in progress
daraghwal wrote: » I doubt it. If they wait until the winning bidder is announced, it might look bad on their part and make them less attractive
Gonzo wrote: » yeah no way they'll sit and do nothing till the NBP is announced, would make Eir look real bad. While no place has been wired as of yet, the ground work already carried out by Eir doesn't exactly come cheap and they are funding all this themselves so it would be a waste to not finish what they have started! I'm just a bit surprised that they didn't start the wiring yet knowing that winter time isn't the greatest time for doing such work. I know the FTTC rollout is coming to completion but I still would have thought that maybe they would have started wiring some areas by now.
MMFITWGDV wrote: » I thought some of the first 100,000 FTTH have already "been passed"? In one of @marno21's updates on the sticky above.
FTTH Cavan, 74 new premises near Cavan Town (cab 025) can now access broadband speeds of up to 100Mb/s Wicklow, 278 new premises near Greystones (cab 010 and 059) can now access broadband speeds of up to 100Mb/s Sligo, 169 new premises near Rathedmond (cab 039) can now access broadband speeds of up to 100Mb/shttp://www.openeir.ie/Techbytes/open-eir-brings-high-speed-broadband-more-than-2300-additional-premises-nationwide/
Gonzo wrote: » Open Eir tweeted that they will roll out up to 600km of aerial FTTH fiber per month, if true that's very impressive. Hopefully that tweet means they gonna start this very soon.
damienirel wrote: » That could be interpreted in several ways. Are they measuring each strand individually? I would rather they give us the number of homes qualifying for a connection than arbitary misleading information like that. Suppose that stat wouldn't look as good.
plodder wrote: » Just noticed the NGA exchange status bubble has disappeared from my local area, probably since yesterday. It changed from planned to 'build commenced' around a month ago, but has just gone altogether. The cabinet status bubble still says planned and the blue lines are still there. Is this something to be worried about?
rob808 wrote: » It take time there getting everything ready for the rollout in Autumn.It better they take there time and do it right than do a rush job and end up doing it ass way.It more than likely starting in September with the first 50,000 finish by December,and the second 50,000 by March.
Ould Mr Brennan wrote: » Has happened on my local exchange too. Was originally down for 2016/17 but has now just changed to cabinet planned for this area
Gonzo wrote: » Many of the green FTTH tags have disappeared. The green tags for Tara and Kilbride are gone. A planned blue FTTC cabinet dot has also disappeared in Ratoath.
plodder wrote: » I see Tara was on the original list to be done by March 2017, though Kilbride wasn't. I'm in Oldtown, North County Dublin, which is also on the original list. Maybe they are just updating the info and need to take the tags offline while they are doing that ....?
