That's really weird that they wouldnt install fibre into that industrial estate, but maybe it wasnt in the plans last year due to Shettleston exchange not being listed at that time.

Unless the landowner has paid for a fibre link or any of the business on the industrial estate, Openreach will not provide a fibre link.

Got another update here for Bridgeton exchange.

Cabinet 95 is down for works:

Reference: BT020-12242080 (1500828)
Location: O/s 214 Westmuir Street
Address: Westmuir Street, Glasgow
Promoter: British Telecom
Telephone: 0800 3282873
Dates : 16/02/2013 - 19/02/2013

Done a bit of an update to the latest map.

Only changes I have seen is that Cabinet 25 has been pushed back from 31st March to 30th June.

http://goo.gl/maps/t2ZpL

All cabinets are now listed for Bridgeton and each one has a list of postcodes these serve. These were taken from the December 2011 document, and could possibly be used when cross referencing on BT's checker.

Looks like (according to roadworks), Cabinet 12 is down to be activated for fibre.

Works taking place between 15th and 16th April at the cabinet.

Received an email back from NGA after 20 working days regarding Cabinet 74

Our deployment is based on the commercial criteria for each cabinet and your cabinet, WS/BRI 74 fails to meet the commercial criteria. This is because the cabinet has too few premise connected to it, rendering it too small to provide a return on the investment based on the costs for the construction and on-going running costs of providing a new FTTC cabinet.

From checking, there is 271 premises connected to that. What is the minimum number of properties connected to a cabinet to make it worthwhile for Openreach to install a Fibre Cabinet?

They deploy two sizes, and the smaller cab can serve around 144 lines. The larger cabinet is 288 lines.

So ideally they'd be looking for more than double that number of premises, as not everyone will sign up, so at 271 you might be on the low edge of being too small. That is without having read what NGA said.

Thanks Andy.

What I had quoted is exactly what they had said. Apart from a little bit of bumpf at the bottom pointing me towards BDUK funding and contacting my local council.

I was figuring that with the smaller cabinet serving 144 lines, that would be an ideal size for the 271 properties in there. That would then allow 53% of the properties there to sign up for superfast.

It will allow that, but it may depend on whether they are seeing good uptake on other cabinets in the area, and all you need is for one cost to be a little more for the cab to fall off the list.

I think you are only just outside the criteria, and if BT has already notified council the cabinet is outside criteria they might not be that interested in helping out.

That's a shame as only just around the corner is the new Athletes Village for the Commonwealth games with 700 odd houses getting FTTH.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2089950272122...

That link there shows you how close it is but all around that area none of the cabinets have been upgraded.

Anyway,

Thanks for the advice Andrew.