Still no fibre partner for my cab in North Seaton Village.

In reply to a post by Metallifux:

Still no fibre partner for my cab in North Seaton Village.

Have you checked any of the various postcode checkers to see if it was included in the plan at December last year?

If you post your postcode I and several others should be able to identify the PCP and its plans.

I would have thought that all CABs that are straightforward (no issues over planning or power) have been installed long ago.

It is possible to place orders even though the exchange isnt "accepting orders" yet?

Have you checked the BT ADSL Checker (provided you are not SKY or TT full LLU in which case use a neighbours telephone number or a local shop on the same PCP)?

Yep checked all of them, postcode is NE63 9YE.

BT Openreach have now confirmed the exchange is active via their twitter feed and website.

I'd like to get a picture of which cabs have been activated, so if your cab has been activated let us all know

So far I know the following are active:

Cab 55
Cab 21

Not Active

43

Also if anyone sees a change in the Talktalk or Sky checkers that would be good to know.

Cabinet P13 definitely not active as not even in place.

Cab 43 is now active

I just thought i would drop this info in here.

Today i spoke to some work men laying the tube which the fibre gets blown through along the newbigging road towards the dove's roundabout. The say they will be running it all the way to stakeford in the next few days (excluding weekend). Except they have a little issue at the top of the half moon bank but they said they will be resolving this on monday so im assuming this means collapsed ducts and they will be digging.

They also mentioned that the fibre will be blown in approximately 2 weeks behind them. So this is good news for me as my cab is in this direction!

The guy also mentioned, but i think he is misinformed, that they will be installing fibre equipment (he mentioned nodes) onto the telegraph poles and running fibre to each pole and then to the property. Like i say i think he maybe has his info wrong or he is pulling my leg as i have never seen anything about FTTP in this area.

Hope this cheers some fellow stakeford residents up.

@Kris - Where is cab 43?

Thanks

Edited by deleted (Thu 09-Aug-12 18:04:06)

Sounds promising

Cab 43 is on 1st Avenue, off Hawthorn Road so not far from the exchange. It was activated this morning and I've confirmed both talktalk and sky are already available from our exchange.

I've signed up with Sky as retentions gave me a good deal to stay - only £3.25 more than ADSL2+ per month for 12 months. I've posted in the sky forum more details of the offer I got.

Now just waiting on BT visiting in a couple of weeks.

Excellent mate.

If you have ordered today what is the wait time for an engineer visit to set it up?

Cheers

23/08 was the first date available.