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Hi
I have noticed recently that my exchange ( Finningley ) has gone from the status of Planned Area ( since last October ) and now shows Under Review for my cabinet ( 3 ) and a few others I have checked.
Does this mean that work may have already started in the Exchange ?
TIA
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No. UR is probably a step backwards.
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Well it was ES before then PA. I was under the impression that UR was more at a cabinet level from reading the stuff on the site.
Could be wrong !
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It means they are surveying your area e.g. locating were to put new cables and the cabinets etc
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i too noticed it had gone from PA to UR last week, and looking at the status types i thought it to be a step backwards but now im not too sure. also, i searched another address in finningley which came up as 'exploring solutions'. I was wondering how long areas stayed as planned area as it has been a planned area since may last year.
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infact, maybe it is a step forward, as lines that are exchange only are showing as 'question mark'
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From OR website:
A cabinet may be under review for a number of reasons, including local planning issues, (we still need planning permission in a number of scenarios, or planning due to safety reasons), problems with our underground network or issues with the supply of a suitable power source. Due to these reasons and the length of time it takes to resolve such problems, we are unable to give likely dates when the cabinet will be able to accept orders.
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In the village where my parents live it was marked as PA for over a year then changed to UR about a month before they started installing the fibre cabs at the beginning of Feb this year. Roadworks.org had been showing the planned cabinet installation work since November last year.
All cabs went live of the 9th March.
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Our cabinet went from coming soon DEC 2014 to Under Review.
We have now been informed that the cabinet was never planned for inclusion in the Fastershire rollout.
We will be considered for the final 10%.
www.guitingevents.co.uk/broadband.html
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Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
I have checked a few lines on different cabs for the exchange and they are all showing UR
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It sounds more positive than my previous experiences. Exchanges went backwards from being in-plan to deploy FTTP to UR, and never recovered to get any service.
When talking about cabs, I expect a UR status to now mean that the original plan has hit problems - perhaps they can't site the cab where they'd like, because of other things running underground in the chosen location.
In some case, those other services have ended up making it impossible to find a site for the FTTC cab, rendering any service impossible. Thankfully, I haven't seen it get this bad often.
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My cabinet is Under Review and BT has stated that nothing is going to happen as too few premises are connected to it (had a reply via my MP) - I'll upload the content at some point.
Current on Zen, getting around 5mb down - .8mb up
Exchange is Fibre enabled, Cab not economically viable to upgrade - though 'Under Review'
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Hi
The thing is I checked a few of the cabs and they were all showing that.
Given that this is one of only two cabs that serve our village I am fairly sure there are enough lines on it. I have seen it when the engineers have it open working on it and its a mess !!
Fingers crossed !
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All
Done a bit more digging on this as it appears from the roadworks.org site that BT have been doing some work in the area towards the village of Wroot, which is fairly small and has a single cab ( I suspect ).
I guess BT must have taken pity on the residents and done there cabinet first as if I put in a postcode of the local school there its showing as accepting orders !!
I do know they were on very long lines from the exchange so might be why they were picked first.
All other cabs ( with lots more lines ) are all showing UR
Fingers crossed another step in the right direction !! At least the work in the exchange must be completed too.
T69
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I think its also down to how quick the rollout will take, i.e. the quicker it takes to roll out the quicker they would get the return from it to rollout other areas.
Example say there are 3 areas two of which would be quick and one taking the longest, my guesses would be to upgrade the two quickest first get some revenue and then do the third, which makes sense.
Paul
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Its not that as it must nearly be the smallest cab for number of lines and is by miles the furthest away.
Curiosity got the better of me so I went to have a look.
Saw the cab straight away as its on the main road going through and sure enough there is a nice new shiny green FTTC cab sat whirring away.
Then looking at the sticker on it, it struck me why this has been done.
This cab falls under North Lincs as its over the South Yorks boundary so is funded by a different project to all the others that lie within South Yorks area along with the Exchange iteself.
Oh well, will keep my eye out..........
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Heh, well when you down for FTTC its easier to know when stuff is happening, however most of our area is down for FTTP and had already been started back end of 2011 where it was halted after only installing part of our road and after installing all the manifold hardware in the pit and up the pole, yet still no fibre, we are at our exchanges outer edges any further and we would be on a different exchange.
Now with FTTC there is digging up pavements installing the cabinets etc which all show up on roadworks.org sadly FTTP doesn't require any cabinets no pavements to dig up apart from when they have blockages etc, so we would most probably never see anything on roadworks.org, the only what we would know is when we see the van with the trailer with the fibre reel on it.
Paul
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In some cases FTTP does require new pavement chambers, or rolling safety barriers on smaller roads with traffic lights as chambers are worked on, so you can still usually spot it.
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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Yeah I saw one of the safety ones two months ago when BT needed access to a fibre node on the main junction about 150m away.
Virgin Media seem very active at the moment,
Paul
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