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Good day all

A relative who lives in rural wales is hoping to downsize, several positive viewings but each time the lack of fibre broadband has been a seemingly significant stumbling block.
The village 400 yds away has it as do properties further out from said village, the house is served by BT from a pole which only serves one other house. Enquiries to BT say we need to contact openreach who in turn say there is no planned upgrade to that postcode ( only the two houses on it).
So we’re assuming that if we or future owner of the house wants it , it’ll have to be paid for.
Before we start an application process , has anyone else gone through this and have any insights as to best way forward ?

Many thanks
 
A couple of alternatives:

1. Try to find out if there is a rural broadband provider in the area. Some locations have co-operatives that put fibre in. OpenReach my not be the only game in town.
Example: https://b4rn.org.uk/about-b4rn

2. See if satellite is available. If you can get it, it might be cheaper than you think.
 
is 5g broadband a possibility ?
somewhere on the openreach site there is a form you fill in that basically says to openreach "my neighbours can get it but I cant" and asks why.
or you could ask the boss to look into it for you

clive.selley@openreach.co.uk

he WILL get someone to respond to you

what is the postcode for the middle of the village?
 
Windows,

Thank you, we’ve asked around locally and the people in the village and those the other side had it provided by BT/openreach, village paid nothing, people the other side are a bit vague and there’s a suggestion that a wealthy farmer paid for fibre to be extended to the box near them and so others had access.

I’ll look into satellite.

Flying Haggis

Cheers but unfortunately , no 5g in the area yet, we currently have a 4g mobile router which is fine for the families use, but not apparently for those looking at the house , they all seem to be homeworkers of some sort having a lifestyle change. I’ve been in contact with a mobile broadband supplier and they are going to suggest antennae, router, access points etc to maximise the available signal.
 
Don't hold your breath.

I live in rural, very central Wales - you can hear a mouse fart at 50 yards and we haven't got any kind of 'G' here.

Some two years ago a planning notice went up in a lay-by in the village advising of a 20 M mast, but the weather has shredded the notice and nothing is being done. No-one knows anything about it. Two proposed sites have been declared unsuitable for a number of reasons.

BT have put in various poles for high-vz broadband, but the fastest we can get here is the usual 15 mb, which actually is pegged at 12 mb.
Private set-ups have been encouraged, but the ones that I have seen don't have much of a business plan past showing apparent signs of interest. They just want your name on a register.

Most of us just lie back and enjoy it.
 
15 mb isn’t too bad! We get 300 kb over the phone line. Thankfully managed to get satellite, but didn’t know that was an option when we bought.
 
Evening all

Thanks for the additional comments

The bt service via copper is a very pedestrian 3mb at best if we had 15mb we’d never have gone the 4g option. I rether suspect that having gone past the house/pole when it was extended past the village, there is little hope of it being done in the foreseeable future, if openreach had have offered it at the time we’d have gone for it.
A sattelite link may be the best option after a bit of a search, so long as its not too expensive, but we’d need to be sure it can be transferred to the next owner. We need to demonstrate what is possible at what cost in order for potential buyers to take a view. Another one of todays first world conundrums.
 
Artiglio":21hmm6kn said:
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A sattelite link may be the best option after a bit of a search, so long as its not too expensive, but we’d need to be sure it can be transferred to the next owner. We need to demonstrate what is possible at what cost in order for potential buyers to take a view. Another one of todays first world conundrums.
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Treat it as a 'Cost of Sale'. Get Starlink...think it's about £500 for the kit. Then a monthly sub...I don't know if you have to sign a contract for a specific period...but factor it in costwise to selling the house. Find out if you can transfer the contract.

But that's definitely the route I'd take.
 
I’m on bigblu which got bought by eutelsat and now apparently only deals with businesses, but digging through the eutelsat website, I see this:

https://europe.konnect.com/en-GB

Which looks to be pretty similar to the bigblu offering I’m on and appears to be still available.

Could be worth a look. ~£40/month.

If your prospects are looking for increased upload speeds as well as download, this may not be the one. You can get between 20 mbps and 75 mbps downloads, but only 3 mbps uploads, but worth noting that we have the same numbers and, for example, FaceTime video calls work just fine.
 
I think that you are chasing the moon, surely if potential buyers are otherwise interested they will seek out a solution for themselves.
If you view a house that looks otherwise perfect then you are not going to reject it because of the avocado bathroom suite are you? You just factor in a future refurbishment.
Pricing up potential alternatives might be a good idea for the sales pack however.
 
Starlink have now added the option to rent the kit for £15 per month in top of the £70 pm subscription so you can tell people that 150-250mbps can be had for either £500 down and £70 pm, or £85pm.
 
Once again thanks for all the comments, in no particular order.

Quite agree that anything we spend is a cost of sale and that really it shouldn’t be an issue for prospective purchasers, but it rather seems that people like to find problems and we’d like to have costed solutions. Must be said that starlink would be not much dearer than the combined cost of current abysmal BT service and the 4g sim price.
Though if broadband speeds make the house unappealing then really they don’t want the house.
 
Having sold three houses over the past 7 years, we came to the conclusion that for more than half of the folks, that their pastime was viewing houses.
The more enthusiastic the less likely they would follow up.
 
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