Fibre hitting me soon?

I have noticed contractors for BT pushing fibre between Atherstone and Barton in the Beans. On route, the cable passes my exchange in Twycross (new green cab for EO lines), and down the lanes passing by my green street cabinet in Bilstone, past Congerstone and ending in Barton in The Beans. All rural areas. What is BT upto?

Edited by 8skellerns (Wed 29-Apr-15 18:22:00)

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Edited by 8skellerns (Wed 29-Apr-15 18:37:28)

Once outside of Atherstone your drawn route passes cab 4, 5, and finally cab 2 in Bilstone all on Twycross(EMTWCRO) exchange
Cab 4 is in the BDUK Leicester plan

Barton is covered by cab 4 on Market Bosworth(EMMARKB) not on public plans

Of course sometimes plans don't get released before work actually starts.

Hmm, im on cab 2 in Bilstone, and the fibre passes directly in front of it, yet no fibre cab has been placed. Where is cab 4 on twycross exchange? Any details on cab 2 in Bilstone? How come the fibre runs to barton in the beans if it is on the market bosworth exchange?

cound be a spine route like a motorway passing through and not stopping

Sounds like a backbone being installed, running from atherstone to my local villages and terminating where the market bosworth fibre ends in barton in the beans then? Obviously the logic of fibre running and ending where phone lines end from an exchange doesnt apply here! All of the local villages where this fibre runs past are earmarked to be fibred by end of 2016 according to This map using postcode cv13 6nn

I have heard back from Openreach, the fibre is the backbone feeding the Twycross exchange from the Exchange in Bagworth. Twycross is to be enabled in the next 18 months. So the fibre runs through the manhole and ducts centimetres in front of my cabinet, yet BT have no plans to fibre that cabinet. Why is this?

Connecting to the fibre spine back to a handover point is just part of the cost of enabling a cabinet for FTTC. Openreach have to pay for the cabinet, the ductwork and plinth, placing the cabinet on the ground, installation of tie cables between the PCP and fibre cabinet, and a power connection to the fibre cabinet.

Thats odd, the superfast openreach checker for my line has now changed from FE (Future Exchange) to UR (Under Review) What does this mean? Good or bad?

Nothing really, the Openreach checker is just an exercise that confuses people

And you are on which cabinet on which exchange?

It may be that not many properties are served by your cabinet, thus cost per premise is higher, or it might simply be you are further than project timeline.

You do not simply splice into the main backbone fibre either, even if you could order Fibre on Demand they would still run a new bit of fibre from the nearest aggregation node, rather than splice into the one outside your door. One big reason being that Fibre on demand would be a GPON FTTP solution and needs the appropriate electronics at each end.

Im on cab 2 on the Twycross exchange.

Hi 8skellerns,
I was wondering if you could tell me how you contacted OpenReach?

In reply to a post by 8skellerns:

Im on cab 2 on the Twycross exchange.

All I can see is the following 5 cabinets:

• Cabinet 1
  
  • Superfast broadband to become available in parts of this area from late 2016 onwards. Specific timescales to be determined
  
  
• Cabinet 2
  
  • Superfast broadband to become available in parts of this area from late 2016 onwards. Specific timescales to be determined
  
  
• Cabinet 3
  
  • Superfast broadband to become available in parts of this area from late 2016 onwards. Specific timescales to be determined
  
  
• Cabinet 4
  
  • Planning and survey work underway or happening soon. Superfast broadband expected in parts of this area from spring 2015
  • It seems that some areas on this cabinet has fibre already.
  
  
• Cabinet 5
  
  • Superfast broadband to become available in parts of this area from late 2016 onwards. Specific timescales to be determined
  
  
• Cabinet 6
  
  • Superfast broadband expected to become available in parts of this area by spring 2016
  
  

That's all I could find, sorry.

*** Update ***
I did a full check of the exchange and I have the following:

Exchange Name: Twycross
Exchange Code: EMTWCRO

County: Leicestershire

• EO Lines:
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 242
  • None: 3
  
  
• Cabinet: 1
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 151
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 2
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 290
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 3
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 82
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 4
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 252
  • ADSLx: 3
  • None: 0
  
  
• Cabinet: 5
  
  • FTTP: 0
  • FTTC: 0
  • ADSLx: 96
  • None: 0
  
  
• � Detected 60 Issues.

All above information is correct at time of 12:31 07-Jun-2015.

� Detected Issues could be stull like:
Your address has been successfully matched; however we cannot determine ADSL availability at this address. Please try the Telephone Number or Postcode Checker.

It seems that Cabinet 6 will be for most if not all the EO Lines, this move hasn't yet been done.

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Sun 07-Jun-15 12:57:41)

Lol.. yes it seems to me to indicate, the need to keep being patient and continue using a crystal ball till FTTC is available in your area.

Saying that I wonder if there is some sort of pattern since I have seen a few posts now that go from "Coming soon" to 'UR' then its available to order.

In reply to a post by Pgre:

Saying that I wonder if there is some sort of pattern since I have seen a few posts now that go from "Coming soon" to 'UR' then its available to order.

Going onto "Under Review" doesn't mean your about to get fibre, you may be lucky and only be on UR for a few days to a couple of weeks or a Month, or you could be unlucky like some and be put on UR for indefinite.

We are down for FTTP and have been on UR since not long after BTOR setup the Where and when page, and I have also seen people get put on UR for a few days to a few weeks and then get fibre, so its still a waiting game.

Paul

Via my contact at the council

Thanks for that! Cabinet 6 has been placed outside the exchange, and ducting provided to it from the huge chamber in the path where apparently all lines from that exchange go through. It was on roadworks.org that roadworks were to commence to install a 'NGA Cabinet' a week ago outside the exchange, yet that has vanished now, and no works happened.

In reply to a post by 8skellerns:

Thanks for that! Cabinet 6 has been placed outside the exchange, and ducting provided to it from the huge chamber in the path where apparently all lines from that exchange go through. It was on roadworks.org that roadworks were to commence to install a 'NGA Cabinet' a week ago outside the exchange, yet that has vanished now, and no works happened.

What road was the cabinet down?
I am seeing over 100 (max limit) of BT work on my app, so a location would narrow it down.

Paul

Cab 6 and the Exchange are on Main Road, Twycross.