Birmingham Exchanges

Has been some updates the past few days

FTTC dates have been revised from end of 2013 to September

check on fttc where and when website for more info

Which ones? The only change I've seen is Midland getting pushed back from the end of June to December.

sheldon, stechford, acocks green

Also Springfield (Hall Green).

It appears outside Springfield they were blowing some cable already! Barely two weeks since they started installing the cabinets.

Acocks Green, looks like they were doing some stuff up near the Swan

I live 2 miles from there

by BP Garage

get me some photos d00d !

After asking for details on a few addresses/what's going on in the city centre, I just got an email back from Openreach saying rather uselessly:

I am sorry but as we are Openreach we only have access to our systems and they work on an individual exchange/cabinet, the info you can see on the Broadband checker will show you if Fibre is going to be available this fiscal year end of 2014 which will cover 60% of the UK the next phase if funded will cover up to 90% of the UK.

If on the Broadband checker you do not see FTTC or FTTP then the chances are that it is not in the current phase.

*slowclaps and frowns*

KRO Indeed. BP Garage near the Swan?

I know. More Sheldon that is isn't it?

Well Im afraid I got nothing for that.

But in Hall Green

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjdean/9159714303/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjdean/9161940642/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjdean/9159694959/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjdean/9174462298/

It looks like they've fitted cabinets to

Petersfield Road
Stratford Road (opposite Fox Hollies Road)
Hamlet Road
Lakey Lane
School Road (Junction of Fox Hollies)
School ROad (Junction of Finmere)
Springfield Road
Brook Lane (by Wake Green Road)

New cabinets appear to be being installed
Highfield Road/Robin Hood Lane
Cole Bank Road

There's a few other cabinets that haven't been touched yet including top end of Highfield Road, Green Road, and Stratford Road opposite Doctors Surgery.

I can't find any more cabinets though.

Cabinet Numbering system seems to go up to 27 for CMSPR.

Cabinets completed so far appear to be connected to power and the holes being filled in quite nicely. Can't hear any hum so don't appear to be live for fibre yet. It's only been a couple of weeks since I noticed this. And we've got all this spring up in no time.

Hopefully they're a bit quicker fitting the fibre.

Simon

thanks m8

very interesting

might get on my bike and have a mooch about, easier than driving lol

hi guys i live in acocks green just ! they are fibre cabs popping up all over AG. 2x fttc on victoria rd near aldi warick rd. dolphin lane , shirley rd by doctors. oakhurst rd . cabs. olton b east juction gospel lane. all up gospel lane by skate park and my cab 66 by post office gopel lane opp leysdown. i thought they would forget about my little very very old cab. it took only 2 wks to install new fttc cab.last week i saw the bt engineer while working on my pcp. 800 lines in that sml cab. inside 3 lines of 250 lines. bt bloke manged to condense these 3 lines into 2 lines. he needed to fit 1 nga strip in spare space. (sorry donot kown tech terms for last few sentances lol.) bt checker NOW shows fttc in sept 2013. norm spedd for me 3.5- 4 mps. new quote 50+ .that would be great. sorry 2 ramble on. fttc progress is quite quick as u can see. i cannot wait !!

Edited by deleted (Sun 07-Jul-13 12:11:51)

fingers crossed m8