Ultrafast Full Fibre to the Premises Broadband FINAL Implementation Status Report

About this Document

(Last Updated on 26th November 2024)

This report covers Abbotts Ann parish ONLY which includes Little Ann, Abbotts Ann Down, St John’s, Red Rice, Little Ann Bridge and the western part of Anna Valley. A separate status report will subsequently be provided for Monxton and part of Amport. This is the FINAL REPORT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION FTTP

You can download the Abbotts Ann FTTP Implementation Final Report

Background

In the spring of 2021, the FTTP project really got underway and a campaign started to get as many properties in the Abbotts Ann parish, Monxton and 27 properties in Amport to sign up to the governments Voucher scheme.

The government voucher scheme would provide funds based on signup to pay for the implementation of FTTP meaning direct Fibre-To-The-Property from the exchange.

The project would cover ALL properties currently covered by the Abbotts Ann telephone exchange.

Openreach came up with a quotation of £850,000 for the implementation of fibre to the nearest telegraph pole or manhole to every property. This did NOT include the 10 to 30 metre connection from the pole or manhole to the actual property. This final connection to the property was the responsibility of a different department within Openreach. When a property owner contracted their ISP for a FTTP installation or upgrade, then the ISP would request the installation from Openreach for the connection from the pole or manhole to the property.

We managed to get 421 properties in Abbotts Ann signed up which were a mixture of business and residential properties. The voucher scheme would provide £1,500 for residential and £3,500 for business properties.

FINAL Project Status

The FTTP implementation meaning getting fibre to the nearest telegraph pole or manhole of every property is 97.2% completed in Abbotts Ann parish. The following are the key figures:-

  • There are 634 business and residential properties in the parish at the start of this project in late 2020.
  • There were 51 businesses, which had registered addresses in Abbotts Ann parish in October 2021 when full submission with addresses was provided to Openreach.
  • As of the date of this final report 615 properties either have FTTP installed and working or it is available and can be connected subject to the property owner requesting an upgrade from their ISP (Internet Service Provider)
  • There are 19 properties or query entries related to the Abbotts Ann parish. These either cannot have FTTP for an unknown reason, or has been incorrectly entered or not updated on the Openreach database.

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