G.Fast pilot expanded again?

I just noticed a lot of G.Fast pods in Princes Risborough, which isn't on either of the accounced lists for the pilot areas.

It's close to High Wycombe, but has its own exchange.

Is this linked to Wycombe (which has been announced in the second list of pilots), a further extension of the pilot areas, or is this the commercial rollout starting?

Large scale roll out has been happening for a few weeks/months now, but the kit is sitting dormant.

Suspect a whole load will go live at once when Openreach have enough in situ for then to announce a certain number of properties having it available

I wonder why they would announce more "pilot" areas, if commercial launch is imminent?

Only Openreach will know that.

They seem to the take the "don't hype it, or people will buy it" approach. Kinda the opposite of an Apple launch...

We're some way away from a full commercial launch.

BT tends to expand pilots and do these early market deployments. It did exactly the same with FTTC.

How many people were queueing outside Apple stores for their latest release lol

I've been seeing them all over the place, but whenever I engage my inner nerd and chuck the postcode in the openreach site, they're not yet active.

Presumably it's a fairly cheap upgrade, given they won't need roadworks, just connecting up to existing power/fibre.

I think BT Wholesale will release g.fast to isp's pretty soon in this month or next month for all g.fast pods already installed on their pcp cabinets. I wouldn't be too surprise if nothing is happen until next year.

It�s not up to BT Wholesale, nor are the PCPs owned by then.

Openreach have the say as to when the product is available to the likes of BT Wholesale.

You�ve contradicted yourself in your own post. You�ve said it will happen in the next two months, then you say you wouldn�t be surprised if nothing happens this year...

Here in Bath,one of the new extended trial area, there was a lot of activity with engineers from OR & BNE last Friday & Saturday working on the G Fast pods,which were installed a few weeks earlier.

If all g.fast already installed in every pcp cabinets then surely Openreach should start this service pass onto BTWholesale to pass onto ISP's to start their G.Fast products.

I do fear it will not gonna to happen this year more likely. Openreach probably wait until all been completed g.fast pod in all pcp cabinets in UK then flick the switch on just like ADSL (up to 8Mbps)

But maybe I am wrong. Who knows?

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If all g.fast already installed in every pcp cabinets then surely Openreach should start this service pass onto BTWholesale to pass onto ISP's to start their G.Fast products.

I do fear it will not gonna to happen this year more likely. Openreach probably wait until all been completed g.fast pod in all pcp cabinets in UK then flick the switch on just like ADSL (up to 8Mbps)

But maybe I am wrong. Who knows?

Overthinking things can often lead to sleepless nights, just don't worry about it.

On a sidenote. Just as well they didn't wait until all cabinets were upgraded to FTTC before releasing it, otherwise we would still be waiting for FTTC to be released. HAHAHA

Wouldn�t make sense to have a lot of profit generating kits sat around for a very long time not making any money.

I suspect they�re waiting till they�re at a milestone (such as, available to 1m properties) before the switch on, to use it as a marketing ploy. That, or they�re simply not yet happy/ready for a large scale switch on.

G.Fast won�t be added to all PCP�s, probably only around 1/3 by 2025 to hit the 10m mark.

not seen any myself, the areas I have moved around is mostly inner city Leicester tho.

I have not seen any pods go out here yet, But I did see a PCP extension thinking it was a pod but there is a new build of houses near by in Pennyford.

I was in York the other weekend and saw G.Fast pod's there, first one's I've seen in the flesh so to speak - none in the Thanet area.

Yeah, I've seen a few PCP extension pods around here, but no G.fast pods. I think, because I live in a BDUK area, Openreach are focussing more on vectoring rather than G.fast, atm.

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Won't see gfast on BDUK cabinets for some time I would guess.

Yeah, thought so. Ah well, I'm content with my connection! I'm very lucky to have it, some people can still barely connect!

There�s some already.

There was a story over on ISP review which highlighted one in Leeds.

Edit: Hunslet 62.

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There�s some already.

There was a story over on ISP review which highlighted one in Leeds.

Edit: Hunslet 62.

Here: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/09/330mbp...

It's been joined by Hunslet 91 and 22 that I'm aware of, both BDUK. I'm sure there are more but either way remember that BDUK has taken care of the fibre and power for the pod.

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Wouldn�t make sense to have a lot of profit generating kits sat around for a very long time not making any money.

Yeah, you'd think so.

Maybe they've purchased the hardware, but some software/settings holdup?