I presume you listen to a lot of Crystal Castles in a dark room

(meant in jest)

What a joke BT is becomimg. Wonder what their excuses are this time. They are taking on more and more contracts to supply FTTC and yet they can not complete what they have already started.
My new FTTC Cab has been installed now for 2 months complete with power supply and yet has been moved back from September to December.
I was told by a BT engineer that the exchange work had been completed some time ago.
Whats the point of releasing the roll out of new exchanges now.

They seem to announce them in weekly batches. Best place I've seen is the Openreach twitter feed. 5 exchanges yesterday, 24 last week (though it covered 2 weeks).

Those dates are based on the actual progrees BT is making which is actually slowing down further. THe majority of exchanhges they had planned to enable in September were not enabled and the long term trend is that they are falling further behind as are BDUK. THe likelyhood of the government target being hit is now remote

Whats the point of releasing the roll out of new exchanges now.

Err, because there are thousands of people working on the rollout, in a highly parallel fashion?

Having a contractor sitting twiddling his thumbs in Edinburgh isn't going to make a rollout in Worthing go any faster or slower.

It's funny how BT become a joke to someone when it's *their* cabinet that stalls - regardless of the fact that the people involved then move on to install somewhere else while the foul-ups get sorted out.

The national roll-out isn't just about managing the planned rollout, and getting all the civil & electrical engineering work to the right place at the right time. It is also about managing the numerous foul-ups that occur on the way - which will be numerous.

I'm not saying they're perfect - and they don't help themselves with the way this quarterly delay makes them appear. But there are usually reasons behind the individual delays.

Ok, But what is the point of announcing new exchanges, better to complete and try to catch up with what they have already started

Because the rollout is ongoing, no point in stopping to catch up to a plan. Better to keep going and change the plan.

In reply to a post by aavid60:

Ok, But what is the point of announcing new exchanges, better to complete and try to catch up with what they have already started

Because BT think that they can get more revenue by continuing the roll-out to further exchanges?

Remember - this is a commercial venture funded by OpenReach. Nobody is forcing BT OR to do any of this work, they can plan it how they want, no government money is being invested so we cannot, really, complain.

Would you really prefer that they made no further plans for further exchanges until all the ones "delayed" were "caught up" - I would hope not.

Whether it should be done this way is another matter of course.

They are though not individual delays but mass delays. Most of the echanges that wer suppossed to go live in September (Probably already the 3rd push back) are now out to December and the December ones to March. Strangly the 2013 future exchanges have staid put but with not a hop in hell of BT achieving that

Bassically BT come up with a list of exxhanges put a random date against them and then push them out every 3 months

Yes by allmeans announce them but don't put some totaaly unrelasttic date against them. These exchanges will not be enabled in 2013. That pure fiction by BT