In reply to a post by ionic:

I have 4 offices in FTTC areas - none of them are connected to cabs that can offer FTTx... BT have a mechanism to maintain their leased-line revenue...

That makes sense (for BT anyway).........are they on large commerical developments or are they more on old streets etc? In their press release BT did mention small businesses as a target for FTTP but not medium/large businesses.

I know FTTP won't be symetrical like leased lines but most businesses use a lot more downstream bandwidth than upstrem.

I've noticed this too. ESROS (edinburgh rose street) which serves the west end of Edinburgh, with loads of very tech-savvy businesses has not been announced for FTTC nor even ADSL2+. Exchanges in predominantly residential areas such as corstorphine have been enabled yonks ago.

You'll also find a similar story in many other cities -- the suburbs have been done, but the central exchanges serving the central business districts are missing or last in line. Either there is some technical reason or BT is holding on to the leased line revenue as much as they can.

I would imagine the latter. The cab won't use a tremendous amount of power (spotters might check how much snow settles on them in this cold weather), but I'd imagine the consumption not to be anything huge. I'd imagine the smallest feed worth running would be 16, or 32 amps single phase, which should easily run a 288 line cab

Apologies for replying to an old post but is there any indication that FTTP on-demand would be available for those on enabled exchanges whose cabinets have been skipped? It would seem technically possible to allow an on-demand install from the nearest fibre cabinet even if this is not the one that serves your phone line.

As someone whose cabinet has been skipped even the relatively high cost of install is attractive if this option were on the table from the nearest fibre cabinet (about 250m).