Changing to high speed fibre bb

[#1]

Our village has just got fibre BB. If I changed to it then how long does it take and what does it involve please? Do you need another router or changes to the phone line? Would we be offline for any time? TY in advance

[#2]

What does it say here. As to what changes are required, that depends on what you have already. If FTTC, usually the phone line cable stays as it is. If the cabinet has just been installed, it might take a month or so, while they check things out. Our cabinet took about 6 weeks from arriving to being operational - but your mileage might vary.

[#3]

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[#4]

If your village has just gone ‘fibre’ then there is a fair possibility that it is FTTP not FTTC.

It would appear that BT are not allowing their sibling retail brands Plusnet and EE to offer FTTP at the moment, whilst there are a hand full of other, more expensive, ISPs are offering it.

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hi @fumanchu,

I've checked your telephone number and it does look like Fibre (FTTC) is available for you.

The minimum lead time on upgrades to fibre is 5 working days, however it could be longer as it's dependant on engineer availability with our suppliers.

As part of the upgrade, we'd be able to provide a new fibre router for the P&P cost of £6.99

There may be a brief period of downtime as the connection is switched over from ADSL to Fibre, however this is often not noticeable.

To discuss upgrading, I'd recommend giving our Customer Options Team a call on 0800 013 2632 as they'd have the best offers available for existing customers looking to re-contract/upgrade.

Alternatively, we may be able to arrange a callback from this team if you'd prefer?

[#6]

Leave it with me, I'll think about it. And thanks everybody!

[#7]

No problem, let us know if there's anything else we can help with.