I too am one of the Gigalcear villages in Oxfordshire.
Firstly a correction to some of the Village names in the report about to be connected: It's Bayworth rather than Baywood and Dry Sandford rather than just Dry.
The service is excellent - it just works, everyone gets full speed all the time with full FTTP. It is a symmetrical service and you can buy either a 50/50, a 100/100 or a 200/200 service as well as the 1000/1000 service.
As some of you may know, Gigaclear works though the local community. If it gets 30% of the residences to sign up to them they will build the network in the village and put a connection pot in for each and every house regardless at the front land boundary. If they don't get the 30% then they go elsewhere.
The community does a lot of the marketing work themselves. Gigaclear encourage a local committee to be set up to spread the word, write articles in local newsletters, distribute leaflets - help out at GC organised open days, and endlessly explain etc.
Also help out sorting out who owns what land, contacting landowners so that the cheapest route for the fibre cabling can be used, helping out siting of the village cabinet etc. It is actually a lot of work - I know - was on the local committee and it requires people to actually do things and attend regular meetings which have defined actions.
Getting the 30% is much more difficult then you might expect. Yes, readers of this forum and other techies will sign up like yesterday but many people simply have other more urgent things in their lives to be bothered about than broadband. You also need to factor in that a fair number of people do not want their verges and gardens dug up for FTTP - this is a far bigger factor than you might think.