adslmax on there

Follow Openreach on Twitter. They tweet every time an exchange gets enabled.

In reply to a post by mabibby:

Follow Openreach on Twitter...

Cheers for the heads-up

In reply to a post by kitcat:

We have started seeing Openreach announce new exchanges being enabled. The first announcement was 15th April with 12 exchanges announced.

A further 17 have been announced today ( 23rd April)
ATHERTON, BINLEY, BLACKPOOL, BOSTON, CAERNARVON, CASTLE BROMWICH, EDINBURGH ABBEYHILL, EDINBURGH NEWINGTON, GLASGOW BARRHEAD, LARBERT, PARKSTONE. RADFORD, RIBBLETON
Shanklin, ST. MARYCHURCH, STOKE TRINITY, VENTNOR

This make 1469 exchanges with some live cabs.

Interestingly only 8 of these were on the coming soon list, 3 of which were shown as Sep 13 dates !

There are 80 left on the coming soon list for March(3) and June (77) 2013.

(Edit to change the count of exchanges rather than rows in the sheet!)

I'm on St Marychurch and the original date for FTTC was Dec 13

Tony

I get the spreadsheet of 'available now' exchanges from the openreach site . I keep historical copies of this every so often so can compare the latest with an older copy, thus can spot the ones that go live between the two copies.

Many of them are on the twitter feed, but not all. They tend to be announced on a tuesday, but not always!

You can also get a file with 'coming soon' and 'future exchanges' however the dates are no longer accurate, (usually much later in the file than reality now) since somebody, (an unpopular poster on here), complained to the ASA that BT was not hitting advertised dates and BT got told to only publish dates they would hit! Consequence was, dates are now no guide to when the exchange goes live only an end date before which it will be live.

I keep a copy of this every 3 months so can track performance.

It is already on the Available exchanges. It was announced on the 15th April in the first batch this year ( 13/14).

It has been removed from the Future exchanges list that it showed on at the beginning of May.

Only one extra Accepting orders for 21st May, FORFAR and a further 4 on 28th May so the rate has slowed somewhat. So hopefully they have been infilling existing exchanges.

ALDRIDGE, CHALFONT DR, EDINBURGH MORNINGSIDE, HORWICH.

Now 1522 exchanges with live cabs, an increase of 64 since the end of March.

I had expected the rate to pick up rather than slow down now the weather had improved and the BDUK exchanges should be starting to come online. There appear to be about 4000 exchanges left to have cabinets enabled on. If we assume that we have 133 working weeks left to the end of 2015 that makes 30 (!) per week to enable ALL exchanges. That seems unattainable to me at this point even 20 per week would be a huge improvement.

Edited by kitcat (Sat 01-Jun-13 15:38:08)

Errrr... 4000 divided by 133 is 30, not 300.

Most of those "little" exchanges, especially in BDUK, aren't going to directly have exchange equipment - they'll be children to a nearby parent with the head-end.

Activating those exchanges is going to amount to converting at least one cabinet, plus the obviously longer backhaul.

Being small exchanges, there won't be many cabinets to convert on each.

The opposite way of looking at the activation count is the premise or cabinet counts, rather than the exchange count. At the moment, BT are "passing" 1.5 million premises per quarter, or about 100k per week (or around 250 cabinets per week).

There is still about 9 million premises to go, which would be 70k premises per week in your 133 week schedule. Not implausible - except lots of projects are setting later deadlines and even higher targets (so perhaps there is really 10-11 million to go).

Edited by deleted (Sat 01-Jun-13 13:52:36)

Wombat

Thanks, brain not working right yet after 2 days in hospital !.

Amended the figures

They've just announced these on Twitter an hour ago (today, Monday) but you seem to have them already!

ALDRIDGE
CHALFONT DRIVE
EDINBURGH MORNINGSIDE
HORWICH