Cant Get Cable? - Maybe We Can Help! - Page 5

weesteev · 27-05-2011, 11:02

JDSP I have asked the team to email you with a response.

Cheers

pepper6981 · 27-05-2011, 15:33

We moved house less than a mile up the road and cannot get Virgin - we reverted to SKY but because we now live next to trees this is a complete nightmare and I hate the servcie from SKY anyway. I contacted Virgin they advise no plans for our street , however houses at the bottom seem to have it and we keep getting fliers through the post for the full packages from virgin, are they doing any new streets we are in Edinburgh EH13 9NZ.

BomberAF · 28-05-2011, 11:16

Why doesn't VM gets it's finger out of it's arese and put some fibre down in Chester before I move there. They have fibre in Ellesmere port which is only a few miles away, Birkenhean and they even have it in Flint but not Chester, why is this. Surely Chester would be a great place to stick fibre as it is very affluent so loads of people would snap up the 100Mb service.

Are there any plans to introduce fibre to chester?

**Chris** · 28-05-2011, 23:59

No, ther aren't. They may fill in missing streets within their network over the next few years but they're not going to build into any entirely new locations. It's just too expensive.

Digital Fanatic · 29-05-2011, 19:21

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Originally Posted by BomberAF

Why doesn't VM gets it's finger out of it's arese and put some fibre down in Chester before I move there. They have fibre in Ellesmere port which is only a few miles away, Birkenhean and they even have it in Flint but not Chester, why is this. Surely Chester would be a great place to stick fibre as it is very affluent so loads of people would snap up the 100Mb service.

Are there any plans to introduce fibre to chester?

I'm sure they aren't allowed to dig up the roads in Chester... the original cable companies didn't try anyway.

Peter_ · 29-05-2011, 20:35

Chester is a World Heritage site so it would be very unlikely for them to allow a cable company to dig roads and lay cable.

BomberAF · 29-05-2011, 22:18

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Originally Posted by Masque

Chester is a World Heritage site so it would be very unlikely for them to allow a cable company to dig roads and lay cable.

True, but they still dig the road up for water works etc.

**Chris** · 29-05-2011, 22:24

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Originally Posted by Masque

Chester is a World Heritage site so it would be very unlikely for them to allow a cable company to dig roads and lay cable.

Trust me, there are parts of Chester where 'heritage' is the last word that springs to mind. Plenty of places where VM could lay cable, if they were minded to do any completely new build.

Sirius · 29-05-2011, 22:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by BomberAF

Why doesn't VM gets it's finger out of it's arese and put some fibre down in Chester before I move there. They have fibre in Ellesmere port which is only a few miles away, Birkenhean and they even have it in Flint but not Chester, why is this. Surely Chester would be a great place to stick fibre as it is very affluent so loads of people would snap up the 100Mb service.

Are there any plans to introduce fibre to chester?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

I'm sure they aren't allowed to dig up the roads in Chester... the original cable companies didn't try anyway.

Nynex was refused access to Chester when the build was at its height in the North West. It was the council putting barriers in there way to do with the dig that killed it off. I know of no plan's at present to try again.

Gareth123 · 01-06-2011, 16:48

Hi, not sure if it falls under your area as I am in the south (Farnborough) but you may be able to point me in the right direction.

I am in a small cul-de-sac with no cable, the main road 35m from my house has full virgin cable, I have contacted: cable my street at virgin and they have said it is possible to cable me!! yay!

But, there is a £600 cost and they will only pay £300, not a problem I have said I will pay the extra £300 as a one off, seems fair I am paying for a service I want.
The reply I got was there is no budget, contact us again in 2012. Is that right even when I have offered to pay the difference and sign up to a long contract??

Thank you in advance
Gareth

**Chris** · 01-06-2011, 17:07

Every business hands out annual budgets to each of its departments. While the 'cable my street' department is willing to cable your street for you, it would appear that it has already spent its budget for this year.

Sounds like a case of willing, but unable. It may be worth contacting them again to find out when they plan to start scheduling projects to be paid out of their 2012 budget so you can be in touch at the right time to get your street at the top of their list.

weesteev · 03-06-2011, 10:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gareth123

Hi, not sure if it falls under your area as I am in the south (Farnborough) but you may be able to point me in the right direction.

I am in a small cul-de-sac with no cable, the main road 35m from my house has full virgin cable, I have contacted: cable my street at virgin and they have said it is possible to cable me!! yay!

But, there is a £600 cost and they will only pay £300, not a problem I have said I will pay the extra £300 as a one off, seems fair I am paying for a service I want.
The reply I got was there is no budget, contact us again in 2012. Is that right even when I have offered to pay the difference and sign up to a long contract??

Thank you in advance
Gareth

Yes Gareth this is correct, give the team an email again and get them to explain this for you.

snakedoctor · 04-06-2011, 17:58

Do you know if there's any plans for VM to lay cables in the (NE15 6) part of Newcastle upon tyne? There's a massive housing regeneration scheme going on there for the next few years and it would seem like a good time.

Airwaves · 04-06-2011, 22:36

Just want to try and get some clarification on what 'infill' actually means here. Where I live the nearest cabled area is half a mile away in one direction and about the same distance in the other. As I'm between the two does that class my area as 'infill'. I've been informed that running through where I am is the link to the two separate networks. The main road a stones throw away has CATV manholes and the tarmac track/black cap arrangement but no service is available so that must be where the linking between the two is run.

Just interested to know if there is any chance my location is likely to be added to the network or not at some stage.

mikeey2 · 07-06-2011, 11:33

Hi,

Would you be able to help for a business install. have spoken to a sales and across the road has cable and telephone but we only have telephone.

Seriously looking at the new business 50Mb Internet.

In Stockton-on-Tees if that helps.

Cheers
Michael