just checked the wholesale checker for CAB 30 which was installed 3 weeks ago is now showing 31-march-14!!

What the heck is going on?? Does BT not want the business!!

I think BT do want the business, seems every other advert on TV is for 'completely unlimited superfast infinity' :/
But talking of business, that's what it is. Despite the UN deeming internet access a human right BT, a quasi private company, do things to make money not as a public service.
I wish Openreach would be more explicit about what the hold up is though and give a timeframe, even if that timeframe changes because of things not going to plan I would rather that than just being told it'll be over a year... probably.

have u email bt to see why cant you order fiber broadband

Q: My cabinet has been repeatedly delayed, and now appears to have been moved from March this year to the end of your programme in 2014. Why has this happened?

A: Deploying fibre cabinets is a complex engineering challenge, which involves not only provision of fibre, but availability of power connections, planning consent for the cabinet itself in some cases, road closures, traffic management permissions and space within our duct network to make the necessary connections.

In a small number of cases we encounter problems which can delay the cabinet by several quarters, and take time to resolve; in the vast majority of cases these are caused by power provision and local planning permission. We work closely with the power companies and local authorities to minimise such delays.

In order to avoid repeatedly delaying these cabinets, we have moved their due dates to the end of our commercial programme to reduce multiple changes to the likely activation date. We will continue to seek solutions for these cabinets and where possible will activate them before the end date given.

This is due to the recent ASA ruiling on the dates provided by the checker, Openreach can no longer do a 3 month period- they now use 6/9 months or the end of the rollout.
Openreach have also said that cabinets planned for March 2013 should be completed by then, though with the rollout expect delays up to March 2014.

Edited by deleted (Mon 25-Feb-13 22:27:58)

Hi,
I walk past cab 18 most days so it's been interesting to watch (and photograph) the progress of the new fibre cab being installed. The new cab has been in for a month, it's got power, BT engineers have been on-site with both fibre and copper cable but it now seems to have gone very quiet with no activity, that I have seen anyway, for a couple of weeks.

Do any of you have any ideas on how this one is progressing? Did they actually blow the fibre back to the exchange and put the copper under the road to the existing Cab yet? Any ideas on when it might be ready? I don't think any of the web sites mentioned on here and elsewhere have any more detailed info and I can't (don't want to) believe the btwholesale.com date of March 2014...

my cab 73 has been put back to march 2014 we got all pay out here but we should be moving to Belmont some time in the summer so it wont be long be for I can have it

Edited by deleted (Sat 02-Mar-13 13:02:09)

Just ordered infinity fed from cabinet 9.

why havet they upgraded the cab 85 then

They are taking orders for cab 16 as well now. I'm pretty sure they haven't done anything to the cab in last few weeks, I reckon they were just waiting for the orders from existing ones to die down.

Not currently economically viable, as there is power and space and its not a conservation area. Maybe the council think it would interfere with their unpopular plan to give away the car park so it can be built on.