Lossiemouth FTTC or FTTP?

Hi guys,

Its been a long time since I last posted on this forum, but I always found everyone her really helpful so hopefully somebody may be able to help me again.

Anyway my local exchange is in Lossiemouth and we recently got pretty much the whole place upgraded to fibre broadband, except my street! It is a very large street and is just over half a mile to the exchange. Now to my horror I found out that we are not connected to a cabinet here every other street around us is connected to a cabinet which has been upgraded to fibre, yet we seem to be on an exchange only line.

My question is to anyone in the know can you provide me with any information as to if my area will be getting FTTP? If it is, how long does this normally take?

My postcode is IV31 6TA

Also this is what I get about my address from a FTTC check: http://fttc-check.alc.im/search/IV316TA

Any help is very much appreciated

Thanks

Steve

Anyone?

Thanks

Steve

I understand Lossie falls under the Highlands & Islands Enterprise BDUK scheme, email Nick Scroggie at HIE with your cab # and he'll ask Openreach and get back to you:
[email protected]

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

I understand Lossie falls under the Highlands & Islands Enterprise BDUK scheme, email Nick Scroggie at HIE with your cab # and he'll ask Openreach and get back to you:
[email protected]

Thanks frogmella,

Unfortunately my line is not connected to a cab, seems to be exchange only line, so I think it may complicate matters slightly.

Thanks

Steve

EO line, if you're lucky, will either get FTTP, or an FTTC cabinet constructed. Worst case, nothing though.

On a side note, my family's from Lossie. Ironic that there's FTTC up there (be honest, it's a small place ), but down in Buckinghamshire I'm still waiting!

In reply to a post by AndyPandy:

EO line, if you're lucky, will either get FTTP, or an FTTC cabinet constructed. Worst case, nothing though.

On a side note, my family's from Lossie. Ironic that there's FTTC up there (be honest, it's a small place ), but down in Buckinghamshire I'm still waiting!

On the BT sheet of exchanges that are live, it says for Lossie FTTC/P so thats why I thought that may be a possibility..... also i'm seeing Openreach vans going in and out of Lossie everyday so they surely must still be doing work?? I think it's strange that my street is on an exchange only line, as the street is only around 20 years old and is about 3/4mile away from the exchange, there are closer streets to the exchange than me and they are all on cabs???

I'm just hoping we can get BT Infinity soon

Thanks

Steve

Edited by deleted (Sun 20-Jul-14 12:04:05)

In reply to a post by Spikester84:

Unfortunately my line is not connected to a cab, seems to be exchange only line, so I think it may complicate matters slightly.

In that case you should still contact HIE (obviously state you're on an EO line) as they will tell you what is planned for your postcode and when. My tiny piddly exchange in the Highlands (Inverness Culloden) has many EO lines and some of these properties are now beginning to get FTTC/FTTP so Openreach are doing something about EO lines.....

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

In reply to a post by Spikester84:

Unfortunately my line is not connected to a cab, seems to be exchange only line, so I think it may complicate matters slightly.

In that case you should still contact HIE (obviously state you're on an EO line) as they will tell you what is planned for your postcode and when. My tiny piddly exchange in the Highlands (Inverness Culloden) has many EO lines and some of these properties are now beginning to get FTTC/FTTP so Openreach are doing something about EO lines.....

Thanks mate, have emailed him. Is he speedy with a reply?

In reply to a post by Spikester84:

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

In reply to a post by Spikester84:

Unfortunately my line is not connected to a cab, seems to be exchange only line, so I think it may complicate matters slightly.

In that case you should still contact HIE (obviously state you're on an EO line) as they will tell you what is planned for your postcode and when. My tiny piddly exchange in the Highlands (Inverness Culloden) has many EO lines and some of these properties are now beginning to get FTTC/FTTP so Openreach are doing something about EO lines.....

Thanks mate, have emailed him. Is he speedy with a reply?

Yeah he normally replies within a day or two but if you don't hear from him after a few days (he might be away) then give HIE a call who'll put you in touch with someone else:
http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/digital-hi...
(contact info at bottom)

Also if you look here:
http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/digital-hi...

Lossie exchange is listed as one of the areas where EO lines will be getting FTTC/P during the next 6 months

Edited by deleted (Sun 20-Jul-14 15:18:07)

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

Also if you look here:
http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/digital-hi...

Lossie exchange is listed as one of the areas where EO lines will be getting FTTC/P during the next 6 months

Thats great really hope that we get FTTP, you can still get BT Infinity with that right?

Steve,

Infinity is just BT Retail's brand name for FTTx - as I understand, if you are on an FTTP connection you get Options 3 & 4 available when ordering which are the >80Mbit speeds.

With regards to what is happening, it's nice to see HiE providing more information now regarding what's happening and roughly on what timescale. Previous discussions I've had with HiE & Openreach have got the simple answer that FTTC comes first, followed by EO lines & then FTTP, but no guarantees on what happens when beyond the normal FTTC.

For your situation, I would expect that you would get a cabinet dropped in at the exchange rather than FTTP as I think the FTTP stuff is being reserved for the out-of-town lines where it's too far for FTTC to work. However, I would be very happy to be proved wrong and to see FTTP happening to some in-town lines as I've got a few customers in the same situation as you in Elgin, Forres and Lossie who would kill for 330Mbit.

Rob.

In reply to a post by carrobesit:

Steve,

Infinity is just BT Retail's brand name for FTTx - as I understand, if you are on an FTTP connection you get Options 3 & 4 available when ordering which are the >80Mbit speeds.

With regards to what is happening, it's nice to see HiE providing more information now regarding what's happening and roughly on what timescale. Previous discussions I've had with HiE & Openreach have got the simple answer that FTTC comes first, followed by EO lines & then FTTP, but no guarantees on what happens when beyond the normal FTTC.

For your situation, I would expect that you would get a cabinet dropped in at the exchange rather than FTTP as I think the FTTP stuff is being reserved for the out-of-town lines where it's too far for FTTC to work. However, I would be very happy to be proved wrong and to see FTTP happening to some in-town lines as I've got a few customers in the same situation as you in Elgin, Forres and Lossie who would kill for 330Mbit.

Rob.

You may be right about them just building a cabinet, there must be around 60 houses in this street, so may be alot of work to get all these houses FTTP and may be easier for them to put up a new cabinet for us instead..... I really hope this does get done in the next few months so I can finally enjoy some great internet speeds!

Signs are that you may be lucky and get FTTP via HIE project on that postcode

Exchange is getting a mixture of C and P it looks like.

Just received this reply from Nick Scroggie

Hi Steven,



Thank you for your email about Superfast Broadband. We are still working on the upgrade in the Lossiemouth Exchange area and you will be pleased to know that we haven't forgotten about 'exchange only' lines.



To give you a bit of background, the rollout of fibre broadband is initially being delivered by creating a fibre network which predominantly uses existing cabinets as is currently being delivered across Lossiemouth. There are premises, such as yours, which receive their services directly from the exchange and which currently can't link into this network without significant additional network modifications. This work isn't easy but planning is already underway, and we are intending to build new street cabinets in Lossiemouth, which does take more time but further details will be available as work develops.



While I can�t comment on individual premises, we currently expect the first of the new cabinet builds for 'exchange only' lines in Lossiemouth to at least be started towards the end of 2014, and deployed by early 2015.



I hope that is of some help, but if you don�t hear anything by November then please get back in touch and I should be able to give you a further update. Meantime if there is anything else I can help you with then please feel free to get back in touch.



Regards



Nick Scroggie

NGB Project Compliance Manager - HIE Digital Team