Open Reach ....Muppets .

[Muddy42]

Sorry I don't understand what work this "permission to work" form is required for?

 

Either you have Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, the cabinet is the telephone exchange or a green box on your street and then it uses older copper wires to go to your home) or Fibre to the premises (FTTP or to your home).  FTTP is the best.

 

Going from FTTC to FTTP would require landowners consent to put in cables, but simply switching providers shouldn't require any permission, and I'm afraid for you in my experience switching providers doesn't result in a speed improvement whatever the fcuk-ers say.  Think about it, the cables and infrastructure are the same?

 

[Stubby]

4 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

Sorry I don't understand what work this "permission to work" form is required for?

 

Either you have Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, the cabinet is the telephone exchange or a green box on your street and then it uses older copper wires to go to your home) or Fibre to the premises (FTTP or to your home).  FTTP is the best.

 

Going from FTTC to FTTP would require landowners consent to put in cables, but simply switching providers shouldn't require any permission, and I'm afraid for you in my experience switching providers doesn't result in a speed improvement whatever the fcuk-ers say.  Think about it, the cables and infrastructure are the same?

 

I'm not switching providers , never said I was ,  .  ( sky is my provider and sky pay Open Reach to use their cable ) I'm going from the old copper to superfast fiber right into my property . They need the permission to work form to be able to dig up the front of my house and to put a box of some kind on the outside wall of my house .

Edited 10 hours ago by Stubby

[Stubby]

After receiving the email from Open Reach saying they have now received the signed permission to work form which I have sent 8 or more times they then  sent me a text ,  "a gentle reminder " , to complete the form . A bunch of fcuking clowns ! .

[spudulike]

You couldn't make it up could you. Modern life at its best. 

[sime42]

Sounds like a clear case of Enshittification.

It is a thing these days apparently

[Muddy42]

4 hours ago, Stubby said:

I'm not switching providers , never said I was ,  .  ( sky is my provider and sky pay Open Reach to use their cable ) I'm going from the old copper to superfast fiber right into my property . They need the permission to work form to be able to dig up the front of my house and to put a box of some kind on the outside wall of my house .

Gotcha, apologies i misunderstood. FTTP will be faster. Myself and many others have had the same experience as you. Just phone them every couple of days and bombard them with repeat emails.

 

Often the engineers just have a handheld machine that you can sign on, just before the work starts.

 

[daveatdave]

i am on fiber makes no difference to the speed that was by wire, it has been on the wooden pole for about a year they brought the new cable to the house then down to a junction box then into the house