In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

They would ruin that greenery to put cement down? I thought the pavement would have been easier?

They tend not to, to make as many people happy as possible, because the pavement is for pedestrians. Obviously there are PCPs on/in pavements everywhere (your one was sort of in a recess in front of some railings, wasn't it?); but I suppose that's either because the pavement was built around it, and/or because back a few decades, there wasn't so much street furniture and so the laws were much more relaxed. A phoneline was obviously considered a necessity, i.e. for anyone to dial 999 but also for people such as doctors who were on call, etc. So that's why the PCPs are/were "allowed" to be there.

With all of the "pavement PCPs" in my town, which have an FTTC twin, they're all across/down the road in a grass verge except one; where there is no level ground (apart from the pavement) that isn't in somebody's garden within 100m. Obviously with cabinets on road junctions, visibility for drivers from every direction takes priority.

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In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

They would ruin that greenery to put cement down? I thought the pavement would have been easier?

Here's a couple where I used to live. Recent housing development (10-15 years old), so are the most recent PCPs added to the exchange anyway, and they had oddles of choice about where to put the FTTC cabinet.

Cab 43, FTTC cabinet across the road, in greenery

Unnumbered cab, FTTC cabinet across road (which need digging), in greenery

In reply to a post by ryant704:

So they're Openreach's Leased lines?

Both. One community FTTH project has VM backhaul over Openreach services. They did a pilot in Cornwall or similar with Vtesse too.

What did the Welsh BDUK project say?

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Most of the current EE cells are linked to 1gbps VM lines. Some even have 10gbps when needed.

what's an EE cell ? no way a mobile base station needs anywhere near that.

I think in some cases the cost would be minimal, eg. I have a cab across the road that shares the same ducting as the D side feeding my pole. the problem is BT are very strict, probably for the reason if they do it for one person then word spreads and suddenly everone wants the same treatment and then the cost may add up when rerouting many lines to nearer cabinets, sadly the network design of BTs local loop is far from optimal. A cabinets coverage probably isnt typically a perfect circle round it. I expect its more like a stretched D shape with the coverage on the side furthest away fromt he exchange. Whilst the exchange side of the cabinet probably covered by the previous cabinet.

In my experience of mapping cabinets coverage, that is generally how it works, although the area covered can be any shape, but the cabinet is nearly always towards the exchange side of the area.

in my area its the opposite.

First it needs to be seen to be believed for the line routing from the exchange its unreal, its more than just indirect.

So the routing from my exchange comes from the left side of my front door. My cabinet is to the left at end of road. The nearer cabinet is across the road and the properites behind it are further away from the exchange and they the ones served by that cabinet.

I suppose we agree on the D shape but just in your case the D is facing the other way.