Slave Cabinets...

Ok here's the situation, Exchange has an FTTC RFS of 31/12/12 - FTTC cabinets are cropping up around the town (Exmouth), some nearby.
My address, part of 5 streets served by one cabinet is not being targeted for the upgrade according to the December spreadsheet, but the rest of the estate IS being enabled as planned.

Roadworks maps show no works forthcoming for my cabinet.

My main question, The cabinet I'm on, could it be a slave cabinet that's fed by the nearest "bigger brother" cabinet (of which is due an FTTC install shortly according to local roadworks notices) ?

Interestingly enough, I've also seen 3 NGA cabinet roadworks notifications in the nearby village of Lympstone, which is also attached to the Exmouth exchange, however, according to the December spreadsheet information, that areaisn't part of an upgrade phase.

Right now I feel like there's going to be a massive doughnut of fibre, all around me, and I'm right in the hole in the middle!

Thanks in advance for your help!

To add - BT superfast checkers also show no sign of FTTC for my street.
Cheers!

To your first question no, Openreach will likely enable your cabinet at a later date or it will be upgraded via the BDUK contract for Devon and Somerset which Openreach is the expected winner to be announced in October.

The December information is from 2011- since then their has been 3 new spreadsheets only avalaible to Isp's, so its very likely that the nearby village of Lympstone was added in a later phase.

If you send a email to this address [email protected]

They should be able to say if their are any plans for your cabinet or what reason it was deferred/declined.

Unlikely. Some cabinets are secondaries (SCP), but they seem few & far between nowadays.

You might be an unviable doughnut, or you might be being planned for a later phase. If unviable now, you might be infilled as part of BDUK funding, when the concept of viability shifts in a subtle way.

Thanks! I emailed [email protected] yesterday, if I get a reply I'll update this post with the response.
Cheers!

Spoke to an engineer fitting a cabinet today, he said that there's 60 odd cabinets on the Exmouth exchange, and they're all getting done (as far as he knows) - December spreadsheet shows 57 cabinets in total - maybe things are looking up?

60 cabinets! wow. i live in Exmouth and would never have estimated there being that many. Our cabinet on Dinan way has just been done. Im looking forward to a massive improvement in performance as we're so far away from the exchange we currently only get 1.2Mb and the uplift is estimated at 30

One has even cropped up in the strand, right where you wouldn't even think you'd need fibre services as the exchange is so close!!
At 1.2Mb, you certainly need it more than I do, but it's debatable as to whether the people in the town centre need cabs.
Could you do me a huge favour and contact me via a PM, I'd love to come and check out a FTTC install at yours when you get it (that's assuming I can't get it, of course!) - hope that's cool
Cheers!
-Dave

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In reply to a post by Anonymous:

60 cabinets! wow. i live in Exmouth and would never have estimated there being that many. Our cabinet on Dinan way has just been done. Im looking forward to a massive improvement in performance as we're so far away from the exchange we currently only get 1.2Mb and the uplift is estimated at 30

It's quite surprising how many there. In Hastings there's 3 exchanges and there's 94 on the Hastings exchange, 14 on Baldslow and I'm not sure how many there are on Castleham and all are supposed to be done by the end of next year.

Thought that'd be the case!

Well, Ta-daaa! here's the response back from BT:

Dear David,

Thank you for your communication about the availability of Fibre Broadband at cab 41 on the Exmouth exchange.
However, I am extremely sorry to inform you, that the upgrade of cab 41 falls outside of our current upgrade footprint.

Blah Blah Blah 66% coverage by 2014, and here's how brilliant we are...

So this leaves me thinking... Where do I go now

A case of waiting for the Devon and Somerset project to announce what areas it will be enabling and with what technology

Thanks Andrew,

I guess it's probably worth me forwarding this NGA e-mail onto them and registering as a not-spot for fibre.

Cheers,
-Dave

"So this leaves me thinking... Where do I go now "

To the estate agent...

First port of call should be you local council. If you are not in the commercial rollout you may be in the Intervention area. Rember they arelooking at providing 25MBS to most of the UK with only a small number of mainly very remote rural areas getting 2Mbs

Depending on how detailed the advance planning is they may be able to tell you by BT Cabinet or Postcode

That's interesting, so the forthcomingminimum speed on a housing estate type environment is 25Mbps? This I didn't know

Which council should I approach, I have:
Exmouth Town Council
East Devon District Council
Devon County Council.

My guess would be Devon County Council on this one?
Cheers!
-Dave

In reply to a post by electro:

That's interesting, so the forthcomingminimum speed on a housing estate type environment is 25Mbps? This I didn't know

Which council should I approach, I have:
Exmouth Town Council
East Devon District Council
Devon County Council.

My guess would be Devon County Council on this one?
Cheers!
-Dave

I'm guessing this will point the way: http://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/, where the intervention map has a lot of white areas.

Edit: Add Map.

Edited by deleted (Mon 08-Oct-12 15:41:18)