Any way to check when fibre will be available in my area?

dub_nerd said:

That's good to know. What do you do about VM's cable modem and router? Do they want the equipment back at end of contract and do you have to get new ones? (EDIT: just checked back over the thread and I think you said that was the case).

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Last year they needed the white hub sent back even though they were sending me an identical one out for the new service contract. (I think they said that the box is coded to the service or address or something so you can't reuse an existing one - maybe that's BS but I don't know). You stick it in a box and attach a (DPD?) shipment form that they provide so it doesn't cost anything to return it.

This year they didn't need it back so it's going in the council WEEE recycling like so many others (what a waste). This year they sent me out the black one.
Either way, when you terminate a service contract with them they'll tell you whether or not they need the equipment back.

Modems (Broadband Hubs) can be swapped from one account to another if required so yes BS.

Cervelo said:

Middle of summer last year 2023, the fibre guys called to my house in Blackrock, Co Dublin to ask permission to run the cables up to my ESB meter in the garage and that's the last I've heard from them
None of the providers we contacted at renewal in March were able to give a date as to when we might get service

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After over 17 months of waiting for fibre I sent an email to SIRO
Asking them if they had any idea or timescale as to when I'd be able to avail of the full fibre service
I got a reply a couple of days later
"We can inform you that SIRO is planning to expand its deployment in your area in Q1 of 2025 without exact dates."
Yesterday I received a newsletter from Siro that my area or more precisely my exchange will be upgraded in 2025
So looks like I'll get full fibre sometime this year, hopefully before end of march when my current contract runs out