Who has successfully petitioned their neighbourhood to get fibre?

[Polymathic]

If there are any some tips will be greatly appreciated . Thanks

 

[Sinbad]

flyer drops in people's letter boxes, explaining the benefits and process on how to go about it
Posters on community notice boards
Posts on the facebook group if you have
Start up a committee to focus on this to share the load across a few people

 

[Surv0]

Did it in Plumstead with a Facebook survey group we pushed on the local community groups. Got around 300 sign ups before Vumatel got interested and took over. Rest is history.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Bloubosrand did.

Community WhatsApp group, FB page, Neighbourhood Witch etc., and we got the required number of interested people.
It took only a few months after we registered our interest on Vumatel before we had fibre installed.

Now the only problem is with Vumatel installing to individual homes

 

[TheJman]

Bloubosrand did.

Community WhatsApp group, FB page, Neighbourhood Witch etc

Nice, scare the crap out of your neighbours...

 

[Nirv]

Did it in Plumstead with a Facebook survey group we pushed on the local community groups. Got around 300 sign ups before Vumatel got interested and took over. Rest is history.

My folks stay in the area and signed up, they're happy to get fibre, though the Vumatel guys basically camping outside every day is a bit of a nuisance

 

[jdido87]

flyer drops in people's letter boxes, explaining the benefits and process on how to go about it
Posters on community notice boards
Posts on the facebook group if you have
Start up a committee to focus on this to share the load across a few people

Did you make your own flyer or did a ISP provide you with one?

 

[Sinbad]

Did you make your own flyer or did a ISP provide you with one?

I think we did our own.
The first move was actually to select two top providers and have a community vote on which was preferred.

I'm sure your provider of choice will help you out though?

 

[jdido87]

I think we did our own.
The first move was actually to select two top providers and have a community vote on which was preferred.

I'm sure your provider of choice will help you out though?

Trying to get one of them to respond to emails very hard.

 

[Nerfherder]

Did you make your own flyer or did a ISP provide you with one?

If you can find an ISP that is interested they will do a flyer drop.

The trick is to find one that is available and ready to do the work. First thing you need to do is find what fibre is accessible to you neighbourhood. Generally if there is a line coming past your hood then one of the ISP's will have you in their coverage map. Coverage means they would consider rolling out in to that area. They rate the coverage as either : ready to install, rolling out or rollout pending.
If you are lucky then your area will be on the map and you can then just start getting people to show interest.

Worst case though you will have to get some one to lay fibre to your area (from somewhere else) and that could be a mission. Most ISP's are trying to snap up all the areas that are close to an existing fibre area already so that they don't have to lay down too much infrastructure.

 

[Nerfherder]

Trying to get one of them to respond to emails very hard.

Yip but you will find that when one provider tries to apply for planning permission they will all descend on your area trying to get in.

Cybersmart tired for three years to apply for trenching in our area and as soon as they got any kind of progress Vumatel and OpenServ submitted applications, this was without anyone in the area approaching them.

 

[jdido87]

Yip but you will find that when one provider tries to apply for planning permission they will all descend on your area trying to get in.

Cybersmart tired for three years to apply for trenching in our area and as soon as they got any kind of progress Vumatel and OpenServ submitted applications, this was without anyone in the area approaching them.

Planning permission from who?

 

[jdido87]

If you can find an ISP that is interested they will do a flyer drop.

The trick is to find one that is available and ready to do the work. First thing you need to do is find what fibre is accessible to you neighbourhood. Generally if there is a line coming past your hood then one of the ISP's will have you in their coverage map. Coverage means they would consider rolling out in to that area. They rate the coverage as either : ready to install, rolling out or rollout pending.
If you are lucky then your area will be on the map and you can then just start getting people to show interest.

Worst case though you will have to get some one to lay fibre to your area (from somewhere else) and that could be a mission. Most ISP's are trying to snap up all the areas that are close to an existing fibre area already so that they don't have to lay down too much infrastructure.

There is a DFA line running about 300m south of my house. More within the area running to a mast.

 

[flamevector]

i used the neighbourhood whatsapp group to start interest. and get numbers directly to Vumatel. contacted them often i think i annoyed them enough proudly have fiber for 2 years now

 

[BetaProject]

There is a DFA line running about 300m south of my house. More within the area running to a mast.

I've got DFA and MTN running literally within meters of my corner property, 2 meters from one wall, about 1.5 meters from another. There are 2 more fibre providers trenching down the road to a different area, both going past my house. I'm still using pigeons for my internet access.

 

[Nerfherder]

Planning permission from who?

The municipality. They can't dig trenches or hang fibre from the poles without permission. Its a lengthy process and certain parts are only processed on specific days IF the right person is available.

 

[Nerfherder]

I've got DFA and MTN running literally within meters of my corner property, 2 meters from one wall, about 1.5 meters from another. There are 2 more fibre providers trenching down the road to a different area, both going past my house. I'm still using pigeons for my internet access.

Thats great news. Fibre past your house might not mean anything unless they have a node along that line. Usually they do make nodes at regular points though.

Find out who is trenching down the road - pester and stalk them till you get someone to respond to you.

 

[BetaProject]

I've got MTN and DFA manhole covers at the corner of my property. I really don't know what is involved in providing fibre from those nodes, but I cannot imagine it is too expensive to dig a 2 meter trench to my boundary wall. I'd even do it myself.

SADV (who runs over DFA fibre) told me at one stage that they would do a feasibility survey, but then went quiet.

Octotel says their way leave are set in stone, and does not allow for any deviations. Frogfoot ignored me. Time to dust off those pigeons again.

 

[Mcwidowmaker]

We have successfully did it, but we are an enclosed area with all of the homeowners on a mailing list and a board of trustees in charge of the whole village. This makes it much easier. We had offers from two open access fibre providers, with a third indicating interest after the close of our acceptance of offers. We went with SADV.

Been seven months since we accepted the offer and they have nearly completed the civils. Feasibility and planning was April to August, then they started the civils. They started floating this week. Will probably be another 2 - 3 months before the network goes live. SADV are much slower than Vuma when building and much less organised, but I still think we accepted the best out of the 3 offers.

They have given us a completion date of 11 September, which gradually moved out to 11 November last week, with their site contact stating they they likely will not make the deadline of 11 November, as they are waiting for more wayleafs.

It has been a little frustrating, but we are getting there.

 

[Mcwidowmaker]

I've got MTN and DFA manhole covers at the corner of my property. I really don't know what is involved in providing fibre from those nodes, but I cannot imagine it is too expensive to dig a 2 meter trench to my boundary wall. I'd even do it myself.

SADV (who runs over DFA fibre) told me at one stage that they would do a feasibility survey, but then went quiet.

Octotel says their way leave are set in stone, and does not allow for any deviations. Frogfoot ignored me. Time to dust off those pigeons again.

PM Pinball wizard your details and google maps pin, let him chase SADV for you. He is a rep for them and maybe he can help you with getting SADV going in your area.