ok lets just scream ...........

The town is now FTTC enabled, but it looks like the estate I am on has been missed or ignored. I know we have virgin cable on the estate, but virgin did not come down my street. there are a lot of SKY users, so I assume the estate is full of sky llu and virgin lines so for BT it may not look like a good deal to enable. That said ahhhhhhhhh we have been missed.

Yuk!

What was showing for your postcode?

In reply to a post by iand:

The town is now FTTC enabled, but it looks like the estate I am on has been missed or ignored. I know we have virgin cable on the estate, but virgin did not come down my street. there are a lot of SKY users, so I assume the estate is full of sky llu and virgin lines so for BT it may not look like a good deal to enable. That said ahhhhhhhhh we have been missed.

Welcome to my world !

Or do you mean the *exchange* has been enabled? It can take months before even 80% of the town's cabinets are enabled after the exchange goes live.

In my case, two cabs in the town are not yet FTTC'd - and yep, mine is one of them. :-/

So this is what it's going to be like a 2 speed britain? postcode lotto. just like the health service.

How about you don't hijack threads.

We dont mind opinions, and accept that with debate there will be two or more facets to them, but you appear to be trying to post simply to start arguments as oppossed to a debate.

lol hijack, so stating what the future of the broadband map is going to be is now considered hijacking?
i am merly expressed what more vocal members of this forum {some names i can't remember} have been trying in vein to explain to you naysayers, that with the infrastructure in the hands of openreach, and i know VM aren't innocent in all this, is that we will end up with a broadband 2nd class citizens. i know it sounds far fetched, but do you seriously expect openreach will tie up all the lose ends once it's infinity project is over?
cyberdoyles idea that everyone should be provided with a 1gb capable line is ludicrous, 25 or 30 is more reasonable. i know south korea is planning to upgrade to 1gbps by the end of the year, because that's due to gouvernment investment, something bduk could learn from. plus people are paying for speeds they aren't getting pay £35 pm for 20 meg, when you are only getting 5, it's even cheaper in S KOREA.

"people are paying for speeds they aren't getting pay £35 pm for 20 meg, when you are only getting 5"

The only people who think are doing that are the ones that can't comprehend a simple phrase such as "up to". These seem to correlate to the people who think they shouild be entitled to purchase a Ferrari for the price of a Hyundai.

Given Infinity is not an Openreach project then I don't expect anything.
Start your own discussion thread, don't jump into other peoples conversations.

As for me being a naysayer, I suggest you read more of what I post and discuss, both here, news and on the wider internet and at meetings.

UK has has two teir or more internet since the first day it was switched on, and the same with every other country, including South Korea and Japan.

I think I am in the same situation. but why is it always my street that gets missed?

Its not as it we are getting fantastic BB

Anyone know what can be done to persuade openreach to enable the estate. Anyone know what actually works.

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Anyone know what actually works.

Money, or a senior management position in somewhere in the BT Group.

i sggest some demand work on the cab -- howm mny premises , view of average speed and then an email to [email protected] - there is a form that can be filled in -- include development name and estante and exchnage and cab as well --

sure i'll get to see it sooner rather than later

should be contact@openreach - sorry finger trouble thsi evening

In reply to a post by creakycopperline:

...i know south korea is planning to upgrade to 1gbps by the end of the year, because that's due to gouvernment investment, something bduk could learn from. plus people are paying for speeds they aren't getting pay £35 pm for 20 meg, when you are only getting 5, it's even cheaper in S KOREA.

lol S.Korea - bet you wouldn't like living in the densely populated areas said speeds are rolled out to - its all about how many people a fibre can serve - do you think the rural areas of S.Korea also enjoy the same fibre the city's do?

In reply to a post by FRS_Plunderer:

In reply to a post by creakycopperline:

...i know south korea is planning to upgrade to 1gbps by the end of the year, because that's due to gouvernment investment, something bduk could learn from. plus people are paying for speeds they aren't getting pay £35 pm for 20 meg, when you are only getting 5, it's even cheaper in S KOREA.

lol S.Korea - bet you wouldn't like living in the densely populated areas said speeds are rolled out to - its all about how many people a fibre can serve - do you think the rural areas of S.Korea also enjoy the same fibre the city's do?

The S Korean plan is to have a minimum 100Mbps available throughout the country by the end of 2015.

I found a page I think on the BT site where you could register your interest and ask to be informed once it became available.

Feeding your number in and persuading your neighbours to do likewise may help convince them there is demand.

I also fed several numbers into the BT checker on a weekly basis to see when we were going to get it. (I am sure they must have something running to see who is checking as they are the most likely to go for it.)

I am not sure if either of these made any difference but we live in an area that previously was only able to get about 3.4 megbits per sec and the village is relatively small and rural. We got FTTC last September.