its not cash flow as its widely publicised that a mahoosive amount of cash is available.

its nothing to do with fttc construction guys moving onto reactive work, well not hugely. the bulk of fttc installation is equipment and fibre type activities. these guys do not revert onto frontline.

the only aspect of the hardware installation out with openreachs control is the installation of mains power, that is down to local power authorities and they are unable to keep up with openreach demand.

i think you will find the main issue is the current workload, a massive increase in llu activity, mainly sky ever since virgin stopped folk bumping the tv and broadband. the fact that the guys who do the install in your house as previously stated are working flat out. as we speak im heading out, 2nd bank holiday in a row.

there is a massive mountain to climb but there is light at the top of it and a cup of tea, just ease of the bashing a little. i would challenge any of you to come out with me for a day to witness how complex maintaining these silly little wires really can be.

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there is a massive mountain to climb but there is light at the top of it and a cup of tea, just ease of the bashing a little. i would challenge any of you to come out with me for a day to witness how complex maintaining these silly little wires really can be.

I hope you didn't intend that reply to be to me, but to some other poster. If so - please start to use the Reply button against the post you are replying to, not the latest in the thread in Flat mode

If it is aimed at me, I'm rather upset by it!

In my case all mention of FTTC is still absent, having in the past been December 2010. All cabinets in this area south of Stepping Hill now seem to be in place, after a frantic spurt to install them during late November/early December.

Madness.

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there is a massive mountain to climb but there is light at the top of it and a cup of tea, just ease of the bashing a little. i would challenge any of you to come out with me for a day to witness how complex maintaining these silly little wires really can be.

I hope you didn't intend that reply to be to me, but to some other poster. If so - please start to use the Reply button against the post you are replying to, not the latest in the thread in Flat mode

If it is aimed at me, I'm rather upset by it!

absolutely was not aimed at anyone just a general post, i did not know there were different ways to reply

apologies

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In reply to a post by andyboygsi:

there is a massive mountain to climb but there is light at the top of it and a cup of tea, just ease of the bashing a little. i would challenge any of you to come out with me for a day to witness how complex maintaining these silly little wires really can be.

I hope you didn't intend that reply to be to me, but to some other poster. If so - please start to use the Reply button against the post you are replying to, not the latest in the thread in Flat mode

If it is aimed at me, I'm rather upset by it!

absolutely was not aimed at anyone just a general post, i did not know there were different ways to reply

apologies

If you haven't already read this post of mine, you will see I'm on the engineers' side. Can't say the same about the management unfortunately.

Nearer me Mortlake, which has cabinets constructed, has been pushed back to 31st March.

It is quite bizarre that there should be cabinets already built sitting idle for 3+ months.

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My cabinet (Thamesmead #37) has been there since January this year and the date has just moved back to March 31st! So by the time that happens it'll have been there for 16 months doing nothing. The other cabinets in the area are active and serving people as I can see from Top 10 Broadband street stats. My cab is about 200m away, another cab 250m away in one direction and another about 400m away in the other direction.

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Nearer me Mortlake, which has cabinets constructed, has been pushed back to 31st March.

It is quite bizarre that there should be cabinets already built sitting idle for 3+ months.

Well ours is powered up as you can hear the cooling running, but the BTW checker still doesn't mention FTTC.

Atleast you have a cab installed, no cab installed here yet..

Do BT when they upgrade an Exchange to Fibre work from the longest distance away from the exchange and work back to it?????. Reason being is that like your new DSLAM cab fan is also hummimg away like a goodun but BT keeps saying I'm not planned for Fibre yet. or do they as a cab becomes live they connect peeps??????