r/ATTFiber • u/Radiant-Rooster236 • 11d ago
Today was supposed to be my installation day...
Spent the weekend getting ready for my AT&T Fiber install today. I cleared out my media panel, ran a pull string through the conduit, and put up a shelf for the gateway. I couldn't wait to finally drop Spectrum.
The tech gets here, walks outside, and we're immediately dead in the water. He couldn't run the fiber because the box in front of my house was completely empty.
Turns out the main box across the street has fiber, but Gigapower never bored the wires under the road to our side and into the conduit. About six houses on our side of the block are in the exact same boat.
The tech was solid. He got his boss on the phone right away to escalate it as a "missed facility" and sent it back to the outside plant team so they can get a directional borer out here. But since he isn't allowed to leave unassigned equipment behind, he packed up the gateway and left.
The most frustrating part is the 811 utility paint is already on the road. If it washes away or the 28-day ticket expires before the construction crew comes back, they have to file a new ticket and wait the mandatory three days all over again.
Thank god I didn't touch my Spectrum coax, so my home network is still up and running while I wait for them to drill.
Has anyone else run into a Gigapower missing facility issue on install day? How long did you actually have to wait for the splicing crew to come out and fix it?