News coverage can work, best to use local news/Councillors and MP but also do go round and get a list of signatures for all those residents/properties connected to the cabinet to show the demand for faster services, Openreach will take notice of that demand.

In reply to a post by Lorian:

might be worth talking to your local councellor too.

What is the point in talking to them? all they are interested in is what affect them. Waste of time all of them

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

To get more ppl to complain .... Most ppl have no idea fttc is available ...
Take Kempton ave cab for example, how many houses does it serve? .... If just 20% of those complain OR may take more notice.

A lot of people also got no interest in FTTc and have no idea what it is. i have chatted to a few people over the last few months and telling them that fibre is becoming available in Hereford. I tell them that they can get faster speed, a lot faster speed and all I hear is will it cost me more.

I tell them maybe a bit more depending who they are with , maybe a tenner extra, maybe less and they say they will stick with what they got.

Sure some are interested, but many are not.


Especially if HT expose the fact that OR are lying about planning permission being blocked by Hfd council.



Maybe OR are telling the truth and Herefordshire council are telling lies. I don't trust any of them to be honest.

Bt seems to be telling people that their super duper fast broadband is available via their leaflets.

I had one a couple of weeks with my address and postcode on to tell me I can now get infinity, my next door neighbour had one in her name because she already have BT broadband.

So Bt are telling people, it is up to other ISps to do the same. the problem is people are thinking that Bt are the only ones that are doing this super duper fast broadband, and that is the way BT likes it.

Got this from Openreach for anyone interested in PCP16:
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The cabinet feeding your line, PCP16 is still within the build process and is currently awaiting power and other works. The estimated date for cabinet 16 enablement is close November, 2012, assuming there are no major issues.

Please track the date for commissioning through the line checker of your chosen service provider.
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I sure hope there are no major issues

could do with some infor on cab 73 when is that going to be done thers no new one at the mont

Quick question re my upgrade from fibre to fibre pro with sky. The engineer tested the line and id 88mbps max, sky are saying 46.2. Does anyone here have any insider knowledge as to if sky would b using something like a postcode estimator or if they would be basing that on actual line tests? It's a huge discrepancy so I don't know who to believe!

In reply to a post by drunkenfool:

Quick question re my upgrade from fibre to fibre pro with sky. The engineer tested the line and id 88mbps max, sky are saying 46.2. Does anyone here have any insider knowledge as to if sky would b using something like a postcode estimator or if they would be basing that on actual line tests? It's a huge discrepancy so I don't know who to believe

Sky use the openreach database; and they are required to give you an estimate under Ofcom's rules before you sign up. You MIGHT get faster, but it could come down as more people in your area join. (this is known as crosstalk).

You can try and see the data yourself from the BTwholesale website, but it doesn't always work if you don't pay your voice bill to BT: https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

The postcode checker doesn't show FTTC is available here (even though we are already on it) and the phone number checker doesn't work as we are now with Sky. When it did work it originally estimated 43ish mbps, hence going for the 40mbps service, but the fact that this house is quite a lot newer than most of the other ones in the road and that the engineer tested the line as 88mbps then we have decided to push for the upgrade to fibre pro with Sky and see how it goes. They said that if we aren't happy then we can go back to to standard fibre and just pay the one month's extra charge of £10, which I am more than happy to do

In reply to a post by drunkenfool:

The postcode checker doesn't show FTTC is available here (even though we are already on it) and the phone number checker doesn't work as we are now with Sky. When it did work it originally estimated 43ish mbps, hence going for the 40mbps service, but the fact that this house is quite a lot newer than most of the other ones in the road and that the engineer tested the line as 88mbps then we have decided to push for the upgrade to fibre pro with Sky and see how it goes. They said that if we aren't happy then we can go back to to standard fibre and just pay the one month's extra charge of £10, which I am more than happy to do

That's the problem of the BTwholesale checker - its a real pain its not an Openreach checker.

The £10 to try and you can go back is a major advantage of Sky over the BT products - and the engineers test is usually the best one. Good luck

Well 5 hours after ringing sky, and just before going to sleep, I decided to run a speed test on the mobile phone. Download is about the same but upload is now 16mbps even over wifi in the bedroom so it looks like they have done the upgrade already! I'll need to run some more tests tomorrow over a wired connection to see what download speeds I'm getting at the moment as the router is still showing that it's connnected at 39,999 and 10,000 which is now clearly wrong! Not bad service from Sky though!