Thanks everyone for your responses.

I have already looked at that spreadsheet, but my exchange wasn't in there.

I also know about the BDUK project, but as I said earlier, I suspect they are going to be focussed more on rural areas which currently suffer from a very poor speed, than on someone with a very good ADSL speed (but no fibre).

Two levels to the BDUK work

1. Work to get 2 Mbps to 100% of people
2. Work to >=25 Mbps to 90%

On part two, as connected to a FTTC exchange, your cab is an easy win to get a good number of people to add towards the 90%.

BDUK projects are NOT just rural, they are meant to be for ALL areas where commercial providers have not rolled out superfast services, or people cannot get 2 Mbps.

Council should have a map in their plan showing what area you are in, and if it looks wrong you need to chase the council.

No fibre cabinet, no FTTP on demand, at least for now.

Openreach are not allowing the overlay network to work on different segmentation to the existing network yet.

Edited by deleted (Mon 28-Jan-13 13:18:55)

The EO lines will arrive via the deployment of hybrid FTTC, and the presence of its corresponding aggregation node.

OK thanks - that's a bit more encouraging.

I contacted the Borders Broadband project a few weeks ago and they said "There will now be a period of nine months for planning where BT will carry out detailed survey work to give a more accurate build plan. Until this detailed survey work has been completed we are unable to give any further detail about how areas like yours may benefit and when."

So I guess I will just have to be patient.

Thanks again.

Well, that is very interesting. I just had an email from OpenReach to tell me my cabinet has been re-assessed and is now "in the program to be upgraded". Obviously there is a long way to go yet (I was told July), but nonetheless it is certainly quite encouraging.

Maybe engaging with OpenReach is very worthwhile for others in a similar situation!
(Or maybe I was just lucky)

They do periodically re-assess, so if costs have come down due to them building out other cabinets nearby that can make all the difference.