In reply to a post by ccxo:

As the base has only just been installed you are a good few weeks yet for all the necessary steps to be finished before the cabinet is ready for service.

I imagined that would be the case. I'd be happy if they were taking orders in October, as that is what I expected as the database says the end of September. If it was all working sooner, I'm not sure what I would do as I'd have to take into account the cost of paying off my current contract with O2.

Concrete cab power and tie cables all done within 10 days on my cab

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Concrete cab power and tie cables all done within 10 days on my cab

Is there a way I can tell what's been done, apart from obviously the concrete being laid and the cabinet sitting there? All I can see so far is rope sticking out of the 2 larger pipes, which I guess are for pulling cables through when the cabinet is fitted.

sounds like you have just the base and ducts so far then. Keep an eye on it each day!

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

sounds like you have just the base and ducts so far then. Keep an eye on it each day!

I have been walking past several local cabinets every day, and to be honest I feel a bit of a geek! I do love this build-up though to getting FTTC, and it's nice on forums like this where we're all a bit geeky about it and are counting down the seconds before we can place the order. *grin*

I really feel for people who expect their exchange to be enabled by a certain day, so they get worked up and excited about it, then it's put back 3 months! I hope that doesn't happen to me.

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I actually find this page quite interesting. I see no signs of channels being dug to the existing cabinet, or anywhere else for power or a fibre connection. It's possible some of this was done months ago when I wasn't even aware FTTC was on it's way to my town, but I think it's unlikely that I still didn't take notice of it.

My local cabinet is in place now. The side panel was left open and when I took a peak inside, I could see it was where the power is connected, and there were just a few disconnected cables so I didn't see a need to let BT know. A few days later the side door was closed, so I assume they went back to connect power up to it.

On another cabinet near me I have just seen Openreach working. The old and fttc cabinets were both open and the pavement was up, and they had 2 reels of cable (one was black, the other was yellow). Does that give anyone a clue as to the stage they're at? I guess it's fairly obvious it is fully connected now, but I'm not sure about the fibre optic cable from the exchange. Would they do all the other work before the fibre optic cable was in place?

I wish I had the nerve to ask the engineers but I lost it as I approached them.

I have noticed on the latest pdf from Openreach that the last 11 exchanges to become live all had a date of Sept 2012, as does my exchange. To get back to the thread subject though, I noticed that Littlehampton exchange (the next town to me) has been put back to December.

BT Engineer in Berry Lane told me the other week that he was finishing up and cab just needed power. Non-BT Contractors are there at the moment presumably adding the power.

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In reply to a post by DarthVodafone:

BT Engineer in Berry Lane told me the other week that he was finishing up and cab just needed power. Non-BT Contractors are there at the moment presumably adding the power.

Most the cabs I come across next door to you in Rustington have FTTC cabs near them now. Openreach have spent 2 days connecting up 2 of them very near me now (one of them is mine), but I have no way to know if the power connection is done or not. Rustington still shows Sept 2012, which means BY then as opposed to FROM then, and the last 18 exchanges to go live all had dates of September. So I doubt it's far off now for both Rustington and Littlehampton.

I still want to understand about why they were connecting splitter nodes for FTTC, but nobody seems to know.

I don't even know what splitter nodes are but as long as it doesn't slow it down I suppose I don't need to.

It looks to me like we are all getting the work done at around the same time around here but for some reason the schedule showed Littlehampton as being after Rustington last time I checked.