In fact Roadworks.org shows a further 4 being done which is probably most, if not all, the remaining ones.

Hiya,

Yep it does look promising.

Last week when I walked past the cabinet near me - it was opened and the engineer was connecting the fibre into the cabinet. This week when I walk past it - it appears to be powered up as you can hear the fans running.

Ironically despite being the nearest cab to me by far its not the one my line is connected to. But that cabinet is being installed this week near haven drive.

As you say from roadworks it looks like all cabs will be installed in a few weeks. So at least from a CAB pov they will all be there.

Still a bit odd as it wasn't part of the commercial rollout and KCC for the BDUK project said 2013 is surveys and no actual work will start until 2014. Still not complaining.

Im hoping it might be live this year now with the progress - maybe similar timing to the cheriton exchange going live.

The cabs are those that do not meet the commerical criteria first time round but would likely be enabled in a later round.

With the county tender awarded these cabinets will be enabled as they are a 'quick win' to increase coverage in the grey area's before the main deployment begins in the white areas that need public subsidy.

Just got a reply from the NGA email address saying the predicted go live date for Cab 3 is February 2014.

Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband at Hawkinge exchange cabinet 3. This cabinet and other cabinets were not part of the Openreach commercial rollout of fibre broadband. However, Kent county council have appropriated funding from the UK governments BDUK initiative and in partnership with BT, are enhancing the Openreach commercial rollout of fibre broadband by upgrading this cabinet. The cabinet is currently predicted to go live in February �14.

Hope thats worst case alot of these cabs are powered now you can here the fans etc.
Odd if they want them running with no customers until Feb.
Cheriton is enabled now (6 months early) which could be a help if they are connected.
Im still hoping before end of year.

Would be nice if they updated the where and when page - still says not in plans when it clearly is.

New entry on roadworks.org for several roadworks for "installing BDUK fibre cable" towards end of month sounds promising. Must be almost the final stage - I hope

Decided to send a mail off to KCC as NGA referred me back to KCC for further info.
Received the following feedback.

Openreach are telling them that there are 2 cabinets left to do.
The fibre still needs to be run to the cabinets.
Current estimate is QTR1 2014 for the exchange to go live with most of the cabinets going live at the same time.