Edited by deleted (Fri 10-May-13 21:00:25)

2 cabs in Oxfordshire they wanted £60,000 so if you have £30k to splash feel free

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Install 20m of 1 way poly duct in Footway,Provide 1 Cabinet and base (NGA cabinets).

And our exchange is marked by the end of this year so I am hoping that it is indeed fibre being laid across the road.

Nope. If it were it wouldn't say 'footway' and there would be information on traffic management.

Just look within 20m of where the roadworks are scheduled. The 1 way poly duct is going to be for the tie cables between the existing cabinet and the new one.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Hi Guys,

ALthough I have been told my cab will not be upgraded for fibre there is now work commencing about 100 yards down the road to , and ill quote from roadworks.org " supply and install an NGA cab and ducting" Work to commence in a few days

Is this them installing a fibre cab? and if so would I have any chance of getting on it? (they are installing it outside new flats I assume on the assumption they have money) I have more money than they do guaranteed as do my neighbours but we are being left out it seems.

In order:

Yes it is. No you don't. No they aren't installing on the assumption they have money, but because they know that cabinet passes more premises than yours so has more chance of giving them a return on their investment. There are plenty of extremely affluent areas where one cabinet is being upgraded while another just down the road home to exactly the same demographics is not because it passes less premises.

If your cab were planned the NGA Enquiries people would've known about it months ago, the time from joining the commercial rollout to being deployed isn't that far off a year, with construction between 1 and 3 months before going live in most cases.

The 20m of ducting could just go to a jointbox, and the tie cables could go via that and then use existing ducts to get to the PCP. It'd still have to be within 80 metres of the jointbox though.

I think he's saying they are laying fibre, but not for you.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

I think he's saying they are laying fibre, but not for you.

Yup.

And blimey, look at your options for a while before actually moving house or whatever in order to get fibre - moving to an ideal spot (for FTTC, as opposed to an ideal spot minus FTTC) would probably cost you a similar amount to the £30K for a fibre cabinet for your PCP overall, including all of the personal hassle and the relatively minor cost of terminating your current contract early, etc.

You could always rack up some debt and be moved by the council to one of the flats with fibre. Why not amass the debt by ordering an FTTC cab from Openreach? It's a paradox, isn't it, you can't pay the £30K for an FTTC cab for your PCP but you can afford to move and alter your transport to work situation just to get FTTC... Do you get decent ADSL2+ at the moment?

I think the mention of your personal income might have overshadowed this discussion a little bit. The point is that BT/Openreach don't know and don't care how much cash you've got, but they do have the statistics relating to how many people in those flats will/might sign up for FTTC, and all for one relatively easy set of works.

Edited by deleted (Sat 11-May-13 05:39:20)

If you'd read the thread you would have seen he's renting, and could rent a place for £200 a month less, that's £2400 a year, with better broadband.

Even if he owned his house I doubt it cost £30k to move, of course this does depend on the value of the house, agents commission, stamp duty, and other fee's, IIRC the average cost of moving house is 10k.