Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I assume rob is talking about the letters and numbers you can see carved into the wood of some poles. The carvings have long predated this fibre rollout and I've always assumed they were some sort of batch reference made by the pole manufacturers.
The Cush wrote: The question is can open-eir encroach on these NBP intervention areas since the agreement between them and the Dept. earlier this year when the intervention map was fixed. Any further cherry-picking now would make it even less viable in these areas for anyone other than eir to win the contract.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I had a quick scan through the commitment contract and could see no reference to non 300K premises. Unless they have some form of gentleman's agreement that has not been mentioned. Otherwise the Department blocking private investment in any region would be a breach of state aid rules would it not?
The Cush wrote: » The question is can open-eir encroach on these NBP intervention areas since the agreement between them and the Dept. earlier this year when the intervention map was fixed. Any further cherry-picking now would make it even less viable in these areas for anyone other than eir to win the contract. If you're referring to the barcode they are normally there since installation but older poles didn't have them. In preparation for fibre rollout in any area poles are checked and marked defective/OK as required, as part of the process any poles without a barcode gets one, these poles/numbers are then added to a map/database with GPS location. The map displays defective poles with a red marker and OK poles with a green marker. Spoke with the person doing this in our area last year.
frozenfrozen wrote: » 50 houses x 18 months x 50 euro per month could be worth skipping out on the subsidies for this small patch of road because they could have had installers in the area sitting idle or spare fibre here or something...., or it might work out that we are already in an area they claimed to have covered before and they have already been given money? or they wouldn't get subsidies for us.. or we would be good to get their numbers up for how many places they've covered because of the density....
rob808 wrote: » I have a question are the poles normally mark with numbers for the eir rollout or are they always there.I just notice my pole has a number on it don't remember seeing one there before and neighbor beside me has a number craved into the pole.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » They've always been there since installation.
vintagevrs wrote: » That photo is how ours looks now. When the DP or splice box is in I'm guessing that roll of excess fibre goes so it's obvious it's done? Just so I know what to look for. Cheers
oleras wrote: » Splice box fitted today, dude said it should be live in 2 weeks. Cheapest i can see online for just phone and 150Mb is 35 for 3 months and 70 for the further 9. I am already a customer, new customers get the 35/month for 6 months. Ill give the sales folks a call tomorrow if i get a chance and see is there anything else around.
oleras wrote: » Checked the Eir site again today... Trumpet fanfare !!!!Great News! Fibre to the Home is available at ABC123 Must be that new wireless FTTH. Thats the pole right outside my house. In their latest rollout figures, i think its 140 can now access FTTH in patrickswell, no doubt i am one of the lucky ones... Going by the other posts i think i will wait til an actual splice box is connected and the poles further up the road actually have fiber on them, it stops a few hundred meters up the road towards the exchange.
frozenfrozen wrote: » all I'm saying is please don't burst my bubble dreaming about fibre kor! :P
KOR101 wrote: » But then they lose the subsidies, so why actually connect now.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I think so. I don't see why they would bother running cable if they were not going to connect it in the near future. It seems like an ideal area to extend into, a couple of hundred metres of cable will cover quite a few premises.
frozenfrozen wrote: » It's sad how excited I am about this... I will update with the reply to that email I sent earlier and if there's any more info or action with the cabling. I was thinking that all along navi that this side of the road is much more densely populated, hopefully they've realised that!
frozenfrozen wrote: » are you granting me permission to get my hopes up?
frozenfrozen wrote: » I've just sent an email now so will post here with the reply I receive. I have checked to see on the NBP map and we are not blue, we are under a purple circle but the house is marked amber with a small circle around it and the surrounding houses. There are light blue houses down the road from us. (see picture below) I called Digiweb just a while ago and the girl on the phone wasn't able to give me any info about whether or not they had any plans at this point in time to bid on our road under the NBP. It is Open Eir fibre I think as there was an open Eir engineer out alone working on it today in an EIRCOM branded van with an Open Eir Hi-vis vest, who also said it was fibre for internet (so he wasn't just doing a phone line repair or something). We are 350 metres by road, less as the crow flies from the end of the light blue marked houses. But we are definitely marked as falling under the NBP and we don't have the old blue line or new yellow line coming past the house that ends 350m away pictures etc. blue cross there marks the poll in the following pictures. Distance between that pole and the light blue houses down the road is 350m by road. how the poll was after the KNN visit and before today's open eir engineer: after today: Not sure what was changed but the coil of cable was moved presume this is a picture of the fibre running alongside electricity We're in their 'coverage' zone but also have been manually marked as in need of NBP coverage on the other map, could eir have changed their mind and they are actually just running fibre to us.. and it's not even part of the rural fibre rollout?
rob808 wrote: » yea email them with your Eircode also check the NBP map see if your house light blue.
The Cush wrote: » SIRO could win the NBP contract for your area in which case they will most likely use their own infrastructure. Also the cost of any infrastructure rolled out for the NBP will be subsidised at that time. The NBP infrastructure will be available to all providers, not just Digiweb. Maybe they're rolling out fibre to you now?
KOR101 wrote: » it's extremely unlikely that eir are running fibre on the assumption that it will be used by NBP bidders other than itself. Other people have posted that the fibre has extended along a road further than the Eir rural map suggested. How close are you to to the planned fibre? Otherwise, keep us posted as you really are an anomaly......and you're getting my hopes up!
frozenfrozen wrote: » I'm totally intrigued now by what's going on with my road, none of us up this end are marked to be getting covered yet the cables are in after that big crew of KNN vans and now today there was one guy in an eircom van wearing an open eir hi vis up who went at the pole again on a ladder, not sure what he was doing but my dad asked him what was the story and he said it was fibre for internet... Should I email that fibrepower@openeir.ie address and see what's going on or is that just for people who can or have ordered? edit: I think I've got my head around what will happen. Fibre is being run by open eir, this will then be made available to any operators who wish to make a bid through the NBP. Meaning we will likely end up being covered by Digiweb who already operate in the area. In probably 2 years time?
frozenfrozen wrote: » edit: I think I've got my head around what will happen. Fibre is being run by open eir, this will then be made available to any operators who wish to make a bid through the NBP. Meaning we will likely end up being covered by Digiweb who already operate in the area. In probably 2 years time?
sean72 wrote: » Excuse the stupidity but where the FTTH (yellow) line is activated and the houses along the line turn green from blue, why are there some houses that remain blue along the activated line?
