Has anyone had any luck lobbying to get Virgin Fibre in their area?

[iruma77]

My street has basic openreach broadband up to 36 mbps and no other options whatsoever. Meanwhile, the adjoining street, 400 yds away has Virgin Fibre. It’s really frustrating, so much so that I contacted their MD of network development on LinkedIn to try to get an idea of there are any plans to expand to my street. He basically said no, not at the current time.

Does anyone know if it’s just a post code lottery or if there are genuine infrastructure limitations that could stop them expanding to a street next to an area they already cover? Has anyone had any success in badgering them to expand to their area?

[jpeg1]

It seems you've got the expert's word on it.   Digging up and reparing 400 yards of street will cost many thousands of pounds and unless there is a large number of guaranteed new customers it won't be worth their while.  And that doesn't even allow for network capacity expansion to drive all those new connections.

Have you checked with Openreach to see when they will be upgrading to full fibre?  Or the new independent fibre providers?

[Matthew_ML]

Hey iruma77, thank you for reaching out and a warm welcome to the community. I would be more than happy to help with this.

I can get some paper work filled out to get a specialist team to give you a call about this if you wish?

I will send you a PM now to get this information.

Please look out for the purple envelope. Thanks

[daveeeh]

Did install it eventually down my street though took like 8 years