In reply to a post by orly:

Similar here.

LOL, mine's hidden behind trees:
http://g.co/maps/q8bs2

from both sides:
http://g.co/maps/k33wu

Strangely Google thinks its the borough council; it most definately is not, I've been up there and seen the BT vans and the BT signs on the building.

But the biggest dullest looking building is the exchange in Crawley (my home town) where its even in Exchange Road:
http://g.co/maps/qm5dv

Edited by jchamier (Mon 12-Sep-11 21:07:42)

The funny bit on the streetview for my exchange is when you pan to the left to see the houses opposite...it's like a sky satellite gallery. must be over a dozen on just a couple of houses.

In reply to a post by orly:

The funny bit on the streetview for my exchange is when you pan to the left to see the houses opposite...it's like a sky satellite gallery. must be over a dozen on just a couple of houses.

LOL that is serious overkill !! I hope some of those buildings are flats, otherwise something odd is going on there.

In reply to a post by adebov:

To give an idea (of the size of our exchange) I've found a flickr photo showing it (the large four level beige building) opposite a four-deck multi-storey car park (photo was taken from the top of the main multi-storey, which is about 6 or 7 levels).

I can't imagine the exchange is that full these days.

Ours is a bit smaller: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346483

The Oldham exchange is the opposite (huge):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ol1+1ba&hl=en&ll=53....

and

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ol1+1ba&hl=en&ll=53....

which exchanges would be more saleable in a rationalisation ? may make it clearer why the choice of serving exchange is being made.

Our exchange, EAMAD (Madingley) is being served from EACRH (Cherry Hinton) about 8 miles east in Cambridge. The exchange next door, EACAX (Caxton, a few miles to our west) is getting its fibre from EMSTNEO (St Neots), about 8 miles further west.

Strangely Samknows shows EAMAD with a FTTC RFS date of 1/12/2011, but EACRH shows FTTC "not available"

Edited by bgriffiths (Tue 13-Sep-11 13:33:46)

Interestingly theres nothing more for West Berkshire, Newbury is live, Thatcham is live in parts, though OR says 31st Sep and Hungerford has a date of 31st December.

I wonder once Thatcham goes live if they will run fibre up to all the cabs in neighbouring exhanges.

Would be interesting to know, what it would cost for fibre to be brought up to 1 cabinet on a different exchange, as my village coverage is split by 2 exchanges, the southern one having FTTC- which half the village gets but not the other half.

In reply to a post by chrisadsl:

Sept 13 issue available:

http://www.openreach-communications.co.uk/superfast/...

YEY at last carlisle is listed, so thats 2 places in the whole of cumbria now getting fibre

Even made it into the local paper (must be a slow news day lol)
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/super-fast-broadba...

not sure what ive missed in these exchange list but this is ours if anyone is interested....

http://g.co/maps/5ye44

You have to say, some of the original exchange buildings do look rather pretty from an architectural point of view.