94598 pushed back 6 months from Dec to June 2024...

[rpineau]

Well.. as expected my date change from July 2024 to .. August 2024..
This is ridiculous.
The bypass pole is already installed at my location, Sonic has already install the fiber on that pole.
That construction page is useless and only make us angry every time we check it and the date get pushed, month after month (it's been more than 2 years for me now). So at the end of July (aka on august 1st) it will change to September .... and so on ...
It's beyond frustrating at this point as I use this to purchase the (expensive) equipment to be able to take advantage of the 10Gbps speed (router, switches, ...).
Even more infuriating when you look at this from Apr 23rd :

@drbubbles - We are looking at June / July timeframe. There are no current delays so its just finishing the work for now
@sheilaf_182 - May is the timeframe we are predicting. Im not seeing any current delays here as well.
@sdnick484 - Several Delays here but it looks like May is our goal right now.
@rpineau - End of may as well. No current delays.

Here is some information i was able to get.

[drbubbles]

With the bypass pole installed give it a couple of months and you'll be basking in 10Gbps goodness

Not a long time in the grand scheme of things. I'm now Aug '25 with no prospect that that can be adhered to either as it is down to the city and other utilities.

[drbubbles]

@miloseaa did you get any more feedback from Valerie Barone? I wrote a few weeks ago but didn't hear back.

[rpineau]

The bypass pole was installed last year and then sonic installed its fiber on it in October 2023 ... "couple of months " ... english is not my first language ... but last time a I checked, a couple of anything is still 2 ... ... we're 10 months after the fiber was installed on the pole ... and still nothing.
The date keeps changing everything on the last day of the month to the next one ... and so on... So the only thing that construction update page does is to frustrate us and get is already unhappy about the provider we're about to use (or may be not use at the speed this is going).

[drbubbles]

That's too bad, I hope it works out soon. Mine is still Aug 25. Maybe this will at least bring a smile: when I was a grad student in the UK our group were working with some Spanish exchange students who we inadvertently convinced that a couple was like 6 or more, as at the end of the day we would often ask if they would like to join us at the pub for a "couple of pints"... for a while they even argued with people that a couple wasn't 2 until they looked it up (this was pre-internet).

[rpineau]

I would agree that "a couple of pints" is always way more than 2 (specially if it's Guinness ).

[drbubbles]

Hi @dane @jerrielm, I would like to write an informal complaint to CPUC about either city of Concord or city of Walnut Creek permitting, or PG&E refusing to promptly replace unsafe poles / erect bypass poles for ~two years. Can you pm me with details of which entity is at fault in my case?

[drbubbles]

For the 94598 area, does anyone know if there's a local candidate up for election that is an advocate for sorting out the permitting issues?

Any word on progress or will we need to wait for a storm to take out the poles before they'll replace them?

[drbubbles]

Fiber live date just changed again from Aug 2025 to May 2026... are PG&E just not bothering to replace poles that are unsafe so it isn't possible to give a better estimate?

[miloseaa]

Sadly mine just got pushed back too. Was June 2025 and is now April 2026. Honestly it’s a joke at this point, as I signed up in June of 2023.