Hi Peter,

Firstly, thank you for chasing this with BT/WSCC! I moved to a house connected to P34 in Littlehampton from Rustington in November and was rather annoyed to find out that it wasn't getting FTTC, but the house I moved from in Rustington had just been enabled.

As a web developer working mostly from home, FTTC would be a big improvement over the 3MB I'm getting at the moment. I've also spoken to someone on the nga enquiries email on a few occasions who originally told me that P34 wasn't going to be upgraded at all due to the cost of getting power to the cabinet, then said it had be re-added to the rollout and would be available September 2013, and now say it will be March 2014.

The checker at http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.address (when entering a house number/post code) also shows the March 2014 date, so hopefully we only have 12 months to wait!

Well a small, maybe positive update.
I noticed this week that Telent's streetwork guys have dug from the pit down approx 20 yards and out into the road.

Hopefully it's the start of the work to support the cab going in.

I drove past a couple of hours ago and saw a shiney new cabinet just down from the existing one

Any idea how long from the cab being installed to services being available? Checker still saying March 2014...

I know - I saw it this morning!!

It varies from location to location, and from the previous conversations I had to NGA was that getting the fibre & power to it was the challenge so it could be while.

BT site says Oct 13 - Mar 14 as an estimate and I've been estimated 34.6Mb/6Mb which sure beats the 2.5Mb/1Mb I get now.

Only time will tell.

7 months on and I'm still waiting:
"Sorry delivery of a power supply to your cabinet is currently delaying progress. Please bear with us."

However, as it went from showing "31st Mar" to "Nov 13 to Mar 14" I've been checking ever week and this week something has changed. Previously it showed 34.6 down and 6Mb up estimate, then it added a Range A and Range B set of values (both showing the 34.6/6).

Today I'm showing:

FTTC Range A (Clean) 55.5 39.9 14.2 8.6 -- 31-Mar-14
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 48 24.9 14.2 6.8 -- 31-Mar-14.

Does the updates estimates being updated like this give a hint to it possibly going live soon? I'm hoping it means that they have been testing and found they can get more out of it.

Sorry but it's totally unrelated.

All estimates have been updated, there's quite a big thread about changes to the the wholesale checker in the fibre forum.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4282893-cha...

Edited by R0NSKI (Wed 04-Dec-13 18:05:33)

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

Sorry but it's totally unrelated.

Oh well, back to weekly checking.

Availability date on the BT Wholesale checker has just changed from 31-Mar-14 to 31-Dec-14

I wrote to Arun Council and BT about the cabinet a couple of months and Copied in Nick Gibb. They replied saying that the cause of the delay was indeed due to problems with power to the site and that the cost was prohibitive at this time, and that the West Sussex Better Connected budget could not be used for contributing towards the cost of getting power to the cabinets.

They did say that they had sent an engineer to asses the situation and that as there were lots of works being carried out for the new estate, it may be possible to get power to the cabinet as part of that, but I'm not holding my breath.

I've just seen this prior to coming here - This is an absolute joke!!

They can happily connect up what is recognised as one of the most economically deprived areas of the county yet a private estate of approx 120 homes, including a fair few companies, is left with with poor quality connections.

In reply to a post by wheeler:

the cause of the delay was indeed due to problems with power to the site and that the cost was prohibitive at this time

The usual cost for a new electricity supply is around £1k, but it isn't always so simple.

The supply companies will charge you an actual amount to connect - so if your supply is the one that causes a transformer to be overloaded, then you get to pay for the whole of the new uprated transformer. There is no mechanism to share the cost over a number of supplies.

I saw one council report where the cost for power for 3 cabinets in the town had reached over £90k.