In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Density of properties on each cabinet is the key and it may be that the furthest out cabinets are under 200 properties per cabinet

The criteria are well above 200 properties per cabinet unless the right people live in those 200 properties.

Under normal circumstances 300 lines isn't enough.

Was trying to give them a glimmer of hope and working on the smaller cabinet sizes

There are at least 500 properties served by the one cab. A new FTTC cab has been installed some 3 months ago and had power connected. But I have been told that the spline has not been pulled through yet. The new date is the end of Dec 12 but i think that is pie in the sky

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Was trying to give them a glimmer of hope and working on the smaller cabinet sizes

The 96s are for cabled areas and the odd special case, not for a standard PCP that's too small to merit the 'full size' cabinets

The only glimmer of hope I could offer would be to either wait for BDUK or hope an appropriate Openreach employee moves into the area.

Or someone in the area gets elected as a PCC.

aavid

The dates are in 3 month blocks, if the exchange is already enabled you may be pleasently suprised. As long as no more blockages are found it doesn't take long to pull the duct through and connect the fibre. My partner watched them going down our road and they must have done 1/2 mile in a couple of hours.

They opened up a lot of Cabinets when they did the exchange, not 1 or 2 like the sceptics say, but then we must have about 80+ cabs to cover the area. Could be over 50 compete now.