Will I ever be able to receive FTTC?

Hi,

I am being trying (so far unsuccesfully) to discover whether my line will ever be 'Infinity enabled'. My exchange (EMHARDI) has been upgraded and a number of cabinets in my area have been upgraded but so far mine has not. I have tried calling BT customer services and they simply tell me to keep checking their website and are unable to supply a date. I have also canvassed my BT account manager as I manage a helpdesk for a company in Northampton but they too don't appear to know. My postcode is NN4 6HR. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Gary

My latest Speed Test

Is there a new cab next to your cab P73 ?

Hello,

No, there has been 2 cabinets at the top of the road (Walkers Way) since I moved into the area 6 years ago (see pic - http://goo.gl/maps/mc5C).

My village (Wootton) contains a number of new estates of which mine is approx 10 years old. I am concerned that our cabinet cabling (which is underground) may have been daisy-chained from the older overground cabling leading through the centre of the village.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gary

I am concerned that our cabinet cabling (which is underground) may have been daisy-chained from the older overground cabling leading through the centre of the village.

You mean the feed to your cabinet ? Then no, this is always underground. If it goes overhead after the cabinet, then this is of no concern to the NGA planners either.

Hi Zarjaz,

Thank you for clearing this up for me

Any ideas concerning FTTC availability dates for my cabinet?

Those don't look like BT cabs to me, but can't really tell much from that picture. Do they have numbers on?

I will go and take the numbers off the cabs and report back later this morning.

Thanks everyone!

Real photos, (uploaded) somewhere), maybe showing just one each, might help as well.

Hello again,

I have take a photo of the cabinets (70t and 73T).

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/10222257@N04/7667745588/in/photostream)

Please let me know if you require anything further?

Thanks,
Gary

Those are TPON (or were) cabinets which means the area was served by Fibre/Copper overlay originally.

Looking at your postcode on the latest data from Openreach suggests you are definitely connected to cabinet 73 and that this will be getting FTTP (not FTTC) in Phase 10a (this year).

James

FTTP? Really?!

That would be frankly wonderful news if correct. Where would I need to go to keep up-to-date with this sort of information? Apart from keeping a close eye here on the forums.

Thanks again for your assistance.

Regards,
Gary

If this is true (FTTP), im going to buy everyone on the estate a beer, I was so disappointed when they obviously missed all the ex-TPON cabs out of the FTTC rollout, and was resigned to a staggering 4mb at best.
Im on one of those two cabs, 70 I think and live just at the top of the estate NN4 6JE.
I remember the wait for copper overlay and was expecting another 2/3 year wait to "catch up", but if this FTTP is true later this year, I have hope at last. Thanks for sharing that info.

Edited by Rolandrat (Thu 02-Aug-12 12:08:56)

FTTP progress in the whole rollout has been very slow, their are alot of towns that had split coverage between FTTC and FTTP, the FTTC half has been completed with very little work on the FTTP side.

Due to the small % of FTTP in the entire rollout not much news from people having it installed gets posted, so updates to how things are progressing are very few, just have to wait and see what happens.

Anyone any update on this

our exchange was done several years ago, but they seem to have done the rest of wootton and missed cabinets 70t and 73t at the top of walkers way

According to the latest Superfast Northamptonshire 'When and Where' map suggests that fibre in our area (NN46HR) is 'expected to be supplied commercially. Superfast broadband may already be available or a telecoms provider has plans to do so by 2017.'

At present I understand the nearest fibre enabled cabinets to us are situated by The Yeoman of England and on Wootton Hope Drive.

I am aware of the additional state funding which has led to work starting in the neighbouring village of Grange Park (http://www.grangeparkpc.org/docs/news/Broadband%20Up...) and have myself seen BT installing cabling between Hunsbury and Grange park (https://www.facebook.com/BBB4GP). Can only hope that this work will lead to works to replace our old TPON cabinets.(70T and 73T)

there are fiber cabninets closer to that
they are in curtlehill and at the end of the road of the new estate that was built behind villagers close a few months ago

I had seen the 2017 date, it is so fustraiting,

there are several hundred houses down walkers way etc, how do we find out how much it would cost to do as grange park appears to have done and self fund

maybe we could club together?

I have (again) dropped an email to the 'Big Idea' team and asked them whom we might contact regarding fttc and fttp updates and/or petitioning for our area.

I will post what response I receive on this feed.

Edited by deleted (Sat 13-Jun-15 15:34:37)

I have received the below response from the Northamptonshirte Broadband Delivery Team as follows.

"NN4 6HR forms part of the existing and planned commercial coverage of superfast broadband services. We asked suppliers (which includes the likes of BT and Virgin Media) to provide information on where they have current and planned provision of superfast broadband up to and including 2017. The results of this OMR were published via our Intervention Area page on our project website.

The Superfast Northamptonshire project is only able to invest public funding into areas where there are no suppliers of superfast broadband currently available or have planned provision within the period to 2017.

May I suggest you contact Paul Bimson (BT Regional Partnership Director for the East Midlands) at [email protected] who may be able to provide you further information on BT�s commercial roll out plans in Northamptonshire."

So I suggest we all petition BT for the current rollout deployment plan.

Shouldn't that guy be Openreach if he's dealing with the FTTx rollout? Why is he BT? Doesn't make sense.

Crikey, has it been 3 years, and still waiting.
I was shocked to find out that Grange Park managed to secure the funding to get BT to sort them out, and now I hear its going to be fttp for all there, so 1 or 2mb to potentially 330mb - very nice, lucky them!!
Once Grange Park is done we will be surrounded by Fibre by either BT or Virgin, E/W Hunsbury even have a choice of Virgin or BT, have done for years now.
I really dont understand why we are waiting so long, I just wish they would get on with it.

It's so frustrating isn't it. So many people in NN4 6HR that are willing to pay for an improved service (better than between 1-3MB) but no one appears to be able to do anything about it here until 2017. Even then, it's not a certainty that commercial funding will assist with the BT Open Reach rollout to update and connect up the remaining cabs.

No other option but to wait and hope..

I can remember emailing BT/OR years ago and they basically said it wasnt economically viable, but we dont come under the BDUK scheme, so I expect that we will be at the bottom of the list once BT have got all the cash they can get out of the council for the BDUK projects. I notice cab 98 on our exchange which is under BDUK scheme has only 40 houses on it according to the superfast northamptonshire website, a new cab for just 40 houses!
Seeing all these tiny villages being done really grinds, I have friends who live in Tiffield, a tiny village - they been on fibre for over 6 months now!

In reply to a post by Rolandrat:

Seeing all these tiny villages being done really grinds

It's not just Villages, my cab has around 200 properties connected and Openreach are saying it's uneconomically viable. All the other larger cabinets in the area have been upgraded. I can get Virgin (but choose not too), so that's probably why Openreach are ignoring it. Maybe if there was competition from Openreach then less people would have virgin?