200m from Virgin cable

[BasilF]

I live on a private road with a dirt access track at the back.  My house is one of 9 on this road but only no 1 (nearest to the public road) has Virgin fibre available.  Who can I speak to to find if there is a way to get Virgin fibre to my (and possibly the other 7) house? Total distance from the public road to the furthest house up the dirt track is 190metres.

[nodrogd]

Not much hope I’m afraid.

1) Virgin don’t touch Private Roads with a barge pole. It is a legal minefield & very few have ever been cabled.

2) With HFC networks that make up 95% of VMs network 200 metres is the absolute maximum that a serviceable connection can be made from the cabinet.

3) HFC networks were built with a finite number of connections available. So there will be no allocation in the cabinet for the houses in your road except for the one you described which possibly faces the public road where VM has a blanket permission from the council.

Even on a public road, the budget to connect one property equates to digging 7 to 10 metres of tarmac. Any more & it is considered not economically viable.