Migrating to FTTC

Have ordered a migration from UKO to A&A FTTC, due at the end of next week. Can see the cabs from my house (about 50m away) - fingers crossed!

Cheers, Mark.

Lucky Bu**er, us out in the sticks get left out of all the best bits.

In reply to a post by peterthepiper:

Lucky Bu**er, us out in the sticks get left out of all the best bits.

7 miles away from me, a friend of mine has 50 meg virgin with FTTC due in the summer. I on the other hand am on a exchange, with less than 800 lines, which is overloaded to the point that it rarely gets above 2 meg every night.

Bit of a joke isn't it?

yes

On city centre exchange in Leicester, 16.5K residential and 1.5K business lines.

No Virgin, no hope of FTTC, lines all over 3000M due to historical network topography. Speeds of 4M rare only with savvy users and sympathetic BT engineers, the norm is 2M or lower.
Exchanges all around have more LLU and Virgin, and guess what, FTTC planned.

Last month, Virgin enable area for Digital TV and BB, now there is a stampede to them with 6 week wait to install.

I predict a FTTC install date announcement within 6 months, made us suffer for years!

Edited by Philce (Sat 13-Mar-10 22:10:38)

Well I took a days holiday today for my BT appointment. So, it would appear, did BT. No sign of an engineer, no phone call, nothing. Day wasted. Fantastic.

Email Shaun, or use IRC.

Im sure he will enjoy bashing heads together!

Emails already sent as I already had a ticket open regarding the install date anyway (QB1045 if anyone is looking)... I guess there's little they can do over the weekend though unless their account manager is really on the ball. Which of course he/she may well be.....

I am sorry about this but it looks like BT canceled the order without bothering to tell us. I am trying to get an explanation out of BT but I may have to wait until Monday

I emailed you asking about a new date and that I will be doing what I can to expedite a new order through.


I will drop you an email back when I get a response from BT.

Thanks Shaun, have replied to your email.

Cheers, Mark.