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Re: BT merry-go-round

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> writes:

> On 19/09/2026 in message <118lmp4$21sa8$1@dont-email.me> Clive Page wrote:
>
>> CityFibre installed fibre in our area with a pavement hatch in the
>> next road but as we are at number 1 it's only about 10 m from our
>> house.  The CityFibre postcode checker said we could get full fibre
>> to the premises.   So I signed up with Zen Internet a couple of
>> weeks ago.  Yesterday I got a message from Zen saying that CityFibre
>> now say that they cannot connect us (no reason given).
>
> I have Giganet (now Cuckoo I think) and BT manholes adjacent to my
> house, one 12" away the other adjoins my property. Neither can provide
> fibre and neither will send an engineer out to look at it. I am one of
> four properties served by a private driveway and I think from their
> point of view that makes it a nuisance job.

Is Giganet providing fibre? I am on the end of a private driveway, and
Openreach put the fibre through the same duct that the copper telephone
wire went through.

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BT merry-go-round Clive Page <clive.g.page@gmail.com> - 2026-09-19 11:05 +0100
  Re: BT merry-go-round "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-09-19 10:15 +0000
    Re: BT merry-go-round Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-19 11:57 +0100
      Re: BT merry-go-round Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2026-09-19 13:53 +0100
    Re: BT merry-go-round Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-09-19 13:00 +0100
  Re: BT merry-go-round Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-19 15:06 +0100
  Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-19 22:17 +0100
    Re: BT merry-go-round Clive Page <clive.g.page@gmail.com> - 2026-09-19 23:02 +0100
      Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-20 11:35 +0100
        Re: BT merry-go-round Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-09-20 12:25 +0100
          Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-20 20:59 +0100
            Re: BT merry-go-round David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-09-20 22:45 +0100
              Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-21 00:34 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-09-21 10:33 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-21 23:18 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-09-21 11:37 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-21 23:34 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2026-09-26 17:01 +0100
                Re: BT merry-go-round Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 16:24 +0000

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