Is fibre actullay being installed after a wait of at least 6 years!

[#1]

I live in one of those parts of the country that has effectively been forgotten for years as far as high speed internet is concerned,

However, in the last few weeks engineers have twice worked on poles that support the telephone cables that lead to our home and today  fitted "cans" that appear to be Fibre splitters on a pole a few fields away .Plastic discs were fitted & looped cable were tied onto the pole months ago. There is no sign yet of any other work to provide new main overhead fibre feed, just the work described on random poles, so how do I ensure that Openreach actually complete the work so that I can get a full fibre connection? 

Also, does anyone know What  the plastic discs are for ?

Thanks for looking 

[#2]

@runhare 

You can check the following 2 sites to see if there's any information about your area.

https://www.openreach.com/

https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/postcode-search

Are you currently served by an overhead or underground copper feed. If the former the pole supporting your will eventually get a unit that looks like the attached picture. If underground, the chanber serving your property will get something similar but you need to see them install it.

Brian

[#3 · Accepted solution]

That is the beginnings of installing fibre.

As mentioned they put in the CBT's up poles or in chambers, and run the fibre back to the exchange - where it links into the fibre already there from the 'big' exchange.

Once a section of the exchange is complete and nominally live, someone from ORwill come and check and sign off the work.  It does not mean the whole exchange, even on a small rural one of 200 lines.  One part was live and orderable months before other sections went live.

If it is subsidised (eg Scottish R100) OR will both be keen to sign off by certain dates to submit their invoice, but will then wait to be paid.

Only at that point does FTTP becomes orderable to ISP's and show up on the OR checker.