RFS Date moved once again arghhhh!!!!

What is going on with the FTTC RFS dates? My local exchange Bargoed was supposed to go live last year. This wasn't completed and a revised date of 30/06/2013 has been on view for the last 3 months. Now all of a sudden yesterday its showing as 30/09/2013.

Has anyone else seen this with their projected dates?

Looks like I will be stuck on 2Mbits for another 3 months longer than expected.

Just saw the Cumbernauld post. looks like its happening accross the board then

In reply to a post by da_flash:

What is going on with the FTTC RFS dates? My local exchange Bargoed was supposed to go live last year. This wasn't completed and a revised date of 30/06/2013 has been on view for the last 3 months. Now all of a sudden yesterday its showing as 30/09/2013.

Has anyone else seen this with their projected dates?

Looks like I will be stuck on 2Mbits for another 3 months longer than expected.

Or even worse u might end up wait abit further until 2014.

The Fibre CAB is in place and has been for over 6 months now. Plus its only 200 metres away from my house so I get the unfortunate opportunity to drive past it every day on my way to work grrrrr!!!!

In reply to a post by da_flash:

The Fibre CAB is in place and has been for over 6 months now. Plus its only 200 metres away from my house so I get the unfortunate opportunity to drive past it every day on my way to work grrrrr!!!!

The same as nearby my bro, The cab was there for 10 months and BT had forget to updated on their system on BT Openreach DSL checker that it was not yet available and now change to you can order it now. But once the order is placed, another further 4-6 weeks to bring in BT engineers and activated FTTC. In total, my brother had to wait setback from 2 months to 11 months in total.

Edited by adslmax (Fri 15-Feb-13 12:07:42)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

The same as nearby my bro, The cab was there for 10 months and BT had forget to updated on their system on BT Openreach DSL checker that it was not yet available and now change to you can order it now. But once the order is placed, another further 4-6 weeks to bring in BT engineers and activated FTTC. In total, my brother had to wait setback from 2 months to 11 months in total.

Who told you that they forgot to change the cabinet to ready for service?

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by adslmax:

The same as nearby my bro, The cab was there for 10 months and BT had forget to updated on their system on BT Openreach DSL checker that it was not yet available and now change to you can order it now. But once the order is placed, another further 4-6 weeks to bring in BT engineers and activated FTTC. In total, my brother had to wait setback from 2 months to 11 months in total.

Who told you that they forgot to change the cabinet to ready for service?

His ISP told him.

The RFS date for Oakham has just gone back from 30/6/13 to 30/9/13. Hardly surprising though as they haven't actually done a single bit of work yet.

Well I emailed NGA Enquiries to ask what's going on. Still no response to the email which said would be replied to within 7-10 days. However passing the CAB this morning it was covered with an Openreach tent but no sign of the Openreach tech or his van?????

Weirdness.....

In reply to a post by adslmax:

His ISP told him.

I see. They blagged him.

I got this from NGA enquiries regarding the date changes:

"The change in dates on the website is as a result of the recent Advertising Standards Agency ruling �Openreach will be moving to provide a six-and-nine-month view of when exchanges will be enabled to improve the accuracy of this data when it is presented to end-users by CPs.

However, the deployment plan remains the same � the majority of people who were given a March date will still be able to receive service by that point, we are just unable to provide a three-month view any more as a result of the ASA ruling.

Whilst in most cases we were able to forecast an accurate date, deploying fibre is a complex engineering job which involves planning consent in some cases, power provision, traffic management, etc. Therefore there will always be the potential for unexpected delays to occur for an individual cabinet. Moving to a six-month view reduces the impact of such delays on our predictions."

Thank you for your enquiry. You are connected to the Bargoed Exchange, cabinet 14.

We have experienced engineering problems with the deployment of your cabinet. This was due to two blockages, however, our systems indicate that the cabinet will hopefully be ready for service May 2013, barring any further complications.

I suggest you continue to monitor our Web-Site which will keep you up to date with our latest deployment news for your exchange, the site also contains FAQs.

The Web-Site can be viewed using the following link:

http://www.openreach-communications.co.uk/superfast/...

I am sorry I cannot provide a definite date at this time.

The change in dates on the website is as a result of the recent Advertising Standards Agency ruling �Openreach will be moving to provide a six-and-nine-month view of when exchanges will be enabled to improve the accuracy of this data when it is presented to end-users by CPs.

However, the deployment plan remains the same � the majority of people who were given a March date will still be able to receive service by that point, we are just unable to provide a three-month view any more as a result of the ASA ruling.

Whilst in most cases we were able to forecast an accurate date, deploying fibre is a complex engineering job which involves planning consent in some cases, power provision, traffic management, etc. Therefore there will always be the potential for unexpected delays to occur for an individual cabinet. Moving to a six-month view reduces the impact of such delays on our predictions.

right just to let some people know i been waiting on fttc to roll out where i am for year or so anyway cut a long story short rfs dates rolled back three times according to samknows and is not supposed to be here till june this year according to information right at this moment in time on samknows.
did a check on bt openreach site all along from December last year and about a month ago has become available.
yet samknows still has wrong info i would suggest people check themselves as like me i can have it on there telephone number and if i had not checked all along i would still be none the wiser my only pain is i'm about 600m from my cab and there speed estimates is i can only get 48M down and 8M up on the 80/20 product RATS!

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

hope this helps some out there.
basil

Edited by deleted (Sat 02-Mar-13 08:35:34)

Bargoed now accepting orders but none of the CABs Ive checked are available.

Anyone from this area getting some fibre loving.

Certainly am - getting 72/18 from Cabinet 9 on St Davids Road in Fleur-de-Lys.

My TBB Speedtest

Also accepting orders on Cabinet 32 (Park Drive/Cardiff Rd by RAFA club).

Hopefully not too long for the rest of the town to wait...

One or two other places in town showing up on our maps

I think it's quite ironic that it's called BT Infinity, as that's roughly how long people have to wait before they can get it!

Well, hopefully I can offer some cheer

As posted on here, my cab had been set back from March 13 to June 13 but when I checked last Friday wholesale checker states I can now get FTTC.

Oddly, every ISP seems to recognise the fact I can get fibre other than BT themselves - however, I have only ran online order checks so far so a call may produce different results.

They're actually well ahead of schedule, overall. 18 months so, which is [censored] impressive.

Obviously there is going to be local problems which are a total pain -- but as a whole, I think the rollout has went incredibly fast. 100-200k new properties a week being connected is great.

In reply to a post by DarkKobra1977:

I think it's quite ironic that it's called BT Infinity, as that's roughly how long people have to wait before they can get it!

Lol, I totally agree. Even though my RFS date in Llanelli is not due until 30/09/2013 most of the other part of the town can get it even the street behind my garden wall can get 80/20 FTTC service, grrrr!

Well this looking promising now then. Maybe OR saying May is correct.

Further to my earlier post my cab which had jumped from Apr 2013 to Apr 2014 went live over the easter weekend, as NGA enquiries had suggested (Mar / Apr 13).

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

One or two other places in town showing up on our maps

Do you have a map of this exchange area with FTTC enabled CABs? What am I missing sir?

So today my number says FTTC is now enabled. I start going to all the SP's but they all still say nooooo go away its not enabled.

How long does it normally take from a CAB going live to the SP's from providing service?

Ours was instant - I saw it was available one morning and ordered online from Plusnet immediately.

Sky & TalkTalk can take longer if they've not installed their kit in the Exchange.

Sky and TalkTalk might not be available straight away, but the others should be.

Have you tried Plusnets checker?

Plusnet checker said just ADSL

PlusNet is only one available here after a week of being available on dsl checker. Even BT site still says no ????

Cheers

What DSL checker you using. Samknows tells me I'm good to go but any other is still using the early 2013 openreach estimates.

In reply to a post by da_flash:

What DSL checker you using. Samknows tells me I'm good to go but any other is still using the early 2013 openreach estimates.

You need to use the BT Wholesale checker with your phone number (BT Line) or address.

Dec 2013 according to wholesale checker hmmmm someone's wrong.

Sam only knows about the exchange, not individual cabinets. It only identifies which exchange you are on.

Yes - Samknows.

They've never been good at tracking the SFBB rollout, and, as they track at exchange level, it is (of course) irrelevant anyway.