Finally!!!

Errr.

Whatever it is sounds as though it's good, from your reaction.

But whatever NC and FE stand for I don't know . Possibly the FE is fibre enabled, but new on these forums I think. Certainly in this one.

What about your cabinet? Is that on the schedule?

I guess FE = Future Exchange and NC = Not Currently in Rollout from the info on the BT Openreach Where and When page

AH, thanks. That sounds almost certain. I did think I must have it wrong, after posting, as he says the end of next year.

Does this checker mention fibre for your phone number? (Assuming you haven't got an LLU phone).

Phone with Sky as well as the broadband? Try your address in that checker then. Not just your postcode.

Frankly, in the circs, I'd stick where you are until the time comes. Sky only have to get a £2000 or so link installed at the exchange, so might have it done in time, and both BT and PN can do the return of the phone with possible SIM provide as well. Though the SIM provide may tax them when it's FTTC.

I wouldn't switch to BT on the presumption there would be a delay with Sky.

My cabinet was enabled about 3 days after the exchange went live and Sky was available immediately. It may have been available on other cabinets earlier, I don't know.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I am with Sky LLU at the moment but I am thinking of going to BT for ADSL as they are likely to have infinity before Sky get round to installing the kit. Then it would be a toss up between PLusnet and Sky for fibre.

Around here sky seemed to be taking orders before Bt, which is strange. someone down the road tried to FTTc via Bt and Bt said it was not available, but we knew it was. so they tried with Sky and order was accepted.

But he now cancelled after changing his mind

Sounds like a plan!

One question. If you cancel Sky now, will you still be able to download everything you do now? Or is some of it only available because you are also on Sky?

Again, I would wait until the exchange is live, and check for your cabinet being live first. If there is no other way, you could get a monthly phone contract with the Post Office so you can check using the number.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Well i've been thinking about it and I am actually going to cancel my Broadband and landline for the time being.

Reason is that I get just over 5mbps down and 0.6mbps up. I pay £23 a month to sky for the broadband and phone. I never use the phone and I don't download much

I've been using a T-mobile sim on their £20 for a years worth of internet for the past 11 months. I get (at any time I've tested it on any day I always get 6mbps down and 5mbps up. So I have just bought another one for another year.

They never enforce the 500MB streaming policy and I watch all my soaps online through it with no problem (do about 6GB a month) I can Skype fine on it and also means that if I am doing something on my laptop and the power goes I don't lose my work or connection.

When fibre is near the live date ill go back to Sky. But for now I can save £23 a month which can then go towards fibre. As much as I love Sky moneys tight.. and I am out of contract.

Well I hope it all goes well, not sure if I would rely on mobile broadband to be honest, certainly not t-mobile.

I take it you don't have sky Tv multi room then? Because getting rid of your phone line would upset Sky.

Edited by deleted (Sun 07-Oct-12 17:03:16)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

This is £20 a YEAR mind. No usage limit I do 6GB a month and have done since the start.

Which T-mobile plan are you on please? Just looked on their website and could not see anything that cheap.

Cheers!

Edited by deleted (Mon 08-Oct-12 00:14:03)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

HI Adrian,

I know of people who will be relying solely on 4G when it comes out - and that's t-mobile. I get better speeds than 3 around here. The device I use was a 3 device but I unlocked it.

Strange how T-mobile wormed it's way into getting 4g before the others.
We will see how reliable 4G is when it gets going and have a lot of traffic on.

It's very reliable. Not dropped once according to the logs and the device has been on some 88 days.

You would not get reliable 3g around here, not from T-mobile anyway, their network is awful,

The problem is it is not really a decent solution,it is expensive and 4G will be as well and if you use it like people use their home broadband, to watch films on netfliks Iplayer, download music, watch You tube, then it will cost even more.


what is needed is some sort of wireless service that is cheaper, say like what I use or Vispa use.

"I can save the money..."

Do't forget to factor in both disconnection and reconnection charges!

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Strange how T-mobile wormed it's way into getting 4g before the others.
We will see how reliable 4G is when it gets going and have a lot of traffic on.

I thought it was a good move by EE (formerly Orange who now owns T-mobile) to apply to use the spare 1800MHz capacity created by the closure of T-M base stations at shared sites for 4G.

At the end of the day it forced Ofcom to bring the auctions for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands forward by 6 months to keep O2 and Vodafone happy.

My exchange is meant to have fibre calendar year 2013 according to their website. Is that actually likely though or are they massively behind in their rolleout plans?

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 08-Oct-12 22:21:01)

The evidence so far is that they are on track across the nation. They're a long way ahead of the number of properties that have access to SFBB: The 2012 target was 10 million, which they reach in May.

However, some exchanges get announced as RFS (ready for service) late, while some (fewer) are early. Individual cabinets vary more wildly, and some can still not be in service a year after they've been installed.

It seems that cabinet delays, when they happen, can take weeks or months to sort out - each individual problem adding between 2 weeks & 3 months to sort out (the period between bursts of activity seemingly because of delays in organising roadworks).

For the next year, the challenge will be staying on track with the BDUK work coming on stream.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

It seems that cabinet delays, when they happen, can take weeks or months to sort out - each individual problem adding between 2 weeks & 3 months to sort out (the period between bursts of activity seemingly because of delays in organising roadworks).

For the next year, the challenge will be staying on track with the BDUK work coming on stream.

Hopefully the BDUK driven work is as smooth as the current commercial bt or work, I'm not 100% happy that we are using tax payers money to fund this but its better than to wait till 2018 for vdsl to come to those who won't otherwise get that speed increase.

Edited by deleted (Tue 09-Oct-12 16:44:04)

In reply to a post by Taras:

Hopefully the BDUK driven work is as smooth as the current commercial bt or work, I'm not 100% happy that we are using tax payers money to fund this but its better than to wait till 2018 for vdsl to come to those who won't otherwise get that speed increase.

and it is all going to one company who seems to be getting all the contracts, BT, I detest paying BT anything and to think that peoples tax is now fudning the company.

I know of people who will be relying solely on 4G when it comes out - and that's t-mobile. I get better speeds than 3 around here. The device I use was a 3 device but I unlocked it.

That might get quite common in cities, with the density of masts you're often not far away. Dump the landline totally.

Put a permanent aerial directed at your local transmitter, and the connection should be pretty solid.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Phone with Sky as well as the broadband? Try your address in that checker then. Not just your postcode.

Frankly, in the circs, I'd stick where you are until the time comes. Sky only have to get a £2000 or so link installed at the exchange, so might have it done in time, and both BT and PN can do the return of the phone with possible SIM provide as well. Though the SIM provide may tax them when it's FTTC.

My exchange is too small for anyone to bother with LLU, but it now has fibre. I can get both Sky and TalkTalk fibre. Why? I'm guessing my connection ends up in an exchange where they already have their own equipment and so the necessary work has been done to make it available.