Have you chased up to see what the project for the city is doing

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/6251/12m_b...
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/14...

No, but I will. does anyone know which cabinet I'm connected too? m405lx

I live right next to a brand new estate of new houses, and also 50m away from

http://www.onecentralpark.co.uk/

they would be crazy not to upgrade this area, although Im sure one central park has its own fast internet

I also want to add, my exchange isnt enabled for fibre yet, nor does it have a date ( sometime in 2013 ) but openreach said my cabinet isnt in their rollout plans, possible they got mixed up?

also, how do I approach this? get the council to upgrade my cab?

Connected to MRCOL 27 as you stated in your original post.

One Central Park does have it's own network about is not provided by Openreach.

Did anyone think about Manchester City Council and others when BDUK funding was being set up?

They are treated the same as County Councils and other unitary authorities - Peterborough City Council for example has a BDUK project, done together with Cambridgeshire.

Council will only fund a cabinet as part of a much wider project, at the end of the day while you may feel special, for a council with a million homes in it you are just a small statistic.

All you can do is pester and try and find out what the councils plans are.

End of the the political goal is superfast for 90% of homes and 2 Mbps for all the others. If you go faster than 2 Mbps now, they may just ignore your area completely

Thanks, I'm going to look into VISPA who can apparently supply fixed wireless at 100mbps, might be a good alternative

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

As you may have seen I had this - the [censored] have put cabs 150ydds either side of me but refuse no matter what I do to put me onto one of them.

It's totally stupid but it's the way it is.

DC-HSPA+ or 4G might be better but the limits are bad

Yeah, 4G would be good, but I dont see them having unlimited data anytime soon

exchanged is now live.. but local cabinet is not, and they have no plans too

Anyone know who I can contact regarding this for Manchester area?

local council is a pretty broad term and I want to make sure it gets to the right person