Fibre missing our street

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DravidDavid

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#130678 23-Sep-2013 23:49

Hey guys,

So I was on my way home and noticed signs informing us of the completion date for UFB in my area. Not at all to my surprise (Ive known for a while) our road is not included.

Here is the thing though. I live up a street where big houses, rich people and the odd Ferrari are a familiar sight. It is also an area where ADSL 2+ peaks at 5Mb/s. If I had enough signatures of people wanting the service, do you think Chorus might change their mind about our road? Have arrangements like this been made before?

Any input is appreciated.

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#901592 24-Sep-2013 00:29

I can almost guarantee that you will have no effect. On DSL front, you have a master splitter?

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#901599 24-Sep-2013 02:58

Is fibre missing your street for now, or is it planned for a later stage?

Alternatively, if your street is an outlying one, the fibre boundary has to be at some point.

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#901600 24-Sep-2013 05:39

I have the same problem. Next street over have fibre. chorus map has no date for my street. Cant even get VDSL :-(

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#901628 24-Sep-2013 07:54

SAme boat for me, we will not get fibre until 2019, by then we will have to pay for installation I am sure.
I only get 3 1/2 meg down and yes I have a master filter.
Behind me in Richardson road there is a cabinet and those people get VDSL, on the other side of Richardson road where there is a lot of housing NZ houses they are on BOF ( now UFB ) and get great speeds.
I am friendly with my neighbours but not that friendly so I cant run a cable or connect to their wireless.

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DravidDavid

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#901708 24-Sep-2013 09:55

What if the neighbourhood was prepaired to split the bill for taking it up our street? Who would I need to contact? Or would I have to do it through a company other than Chorus?

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#908538 5-Oct-2013 17:39

DarthKermit: Is fibre missing your street for now, or is it planned for a later stage?

Alternatively, if your street is an outlying one, the fibre boundary has to be at some point.

Getting signatures might have an effect if you are on the edge of the UFB area and willing to pay higher install cost. Otherwise it may be coming in a future plan as part of another coverage area.

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gareth41

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#908719 6-Oct-2013 11:13

if the neighbourhood is loaded with $$$ and the odd Ferrari is a familiar site, then why can't they pay for their own fibre to be laid down the street?

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#908726 6-Oct-2013 11:29

It's called the curse of the geeks.

I have no ufb and the last house on the copper line to get slow vdsl but it's better than nothing. My backdoor neighbour has ufb and he doesnt even use his adsl much.

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#908727 6-Oct-2013 11:30

(I bet he'd be happy with dialup!)

SilentOne

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#908732 6-Oct-2013 11:50

Curse of the geeks indeed!

Similar situation, have a use/need for UFB or even VDSL but cannot get either until mid 2015.

Would be keen to hear if anyone manges to successfully petition their local UFB provider, or if any UFB provider does indeed dream up a process.

It's highly unlikely but with enough people in a street signalling intent, at least in some cases (where minimal infrastructure is needed), it might be worth it to them (?)

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#908735 6-Oct-2013 12:07

SilentOne: Would be keen to hear if anyone manges to successfully petition their local UFB provider, or if any UFB provider does indeed dream up a process.

I asked Chorus about this a couple of years ago and was told that it's possible; something along the lines of "we're not in the business of turning away potential customers" but that I'd need to talk to an ISP to get an order in. However, I couldn't find a single ISP that was willing to investigate it.

In my case, fibre was coming "eventually" and I was trying to see how much it would cost me to push that forward. It's now 12-18 months away so probably isn't worth chasing up anymore; the cost is likely to be in the thousands and the amount that I'm prepared to spend gets less and less as "free" fibre gets closer and closer!

SilentOne

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#908743 6-Oct-2013 12:29

Many thanks for the feedback, indeed cost (and government/Kordia subsidies) is the factor on both sides that I'm picking will discourage anything outside the disclosed deployment plans.

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#908772 6-Oct-2013 14:02

ok if anyone knows how to petition let me know ... I want UFB!

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#908774 6-Oct-2013 14:02

(or if I can dangle a longer cable from my neighbour! LOL)

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#908798 6-Oct-2013 16:15

If your neighbour has got it then you should be able to get UFB installed for yourself on Port 2 of the ONT and run an Ethernet cable. As long as you do an incredibly tidy job of this and give your neighbour some rent for using their ONT then this could be a possibility.

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