I walk to the pathway today and saw there is five BT Openreach van installing fibre from the main road all the way to my cabinet box there. I spoken to Openreach men and they say new FTTC cabinet will be installing next week next to cabinet number 8 box there. He say the FTTC should be ready before November 2013.

I took two photos today:

http://s5.postimg.org/d16vpiaav/20130914_170409.jpg

http://s5.postimg.org/4wyrkrnvr/20130914_170420.jpg

Excellent news. I'm on that cabinet 37. I did see the Open Reach guys down the road the other day by the big roundabout, and was hoping it was fibre rollout. Woo hoo! I wonder when we can start placing orders? 2 here please!

In reply to a post by stevebrowne:

Excellent news. I'm on that cabinet 37. I did see the Open Reach guys down the road the other day by the big roundabout, and was hoping it was fibre rollout. Woo hoo! I wonder when we can start placing orders? 2 here please!

It will be ready by November say BT Openreach if all plan go well without any issues

Edited by adslmax (Tue 17-Sep-13 21:31:56)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Don't forget it takes time from when it goes like to accepting orders. Our area has been live for 2.5 weeks now but still nothing showing on DSL checker for fibre. Not sure how long it actually takes

Very true. It quite annoying when the FTTC cabinet is LIVE and ready. But BT Wholesale take ages to updated their site to become accepting orders. Look like we won't getting ready for at least December 2013. I dunno why it take BTW a long while to updated?

Edited by adslmax (Tue 17-Sep-13 21:37:52)

It usually doesn't. The accepting orders marker is placed by Openreach.

There are other things to do with the cabinet once it's powered up. Things like uploading firmware, testing, line card installation, configuration.

Even though you might be able to hear the thing humming away there are still a few tasks to be completed before it's handed over to CPs. Depending how these go these can take a couple of weeks or longer.

A few weeks back it said that we couldn't get it until March next year, so I'm just pleased that it's sooner!

Thanks for this, so if BT Openreach man told me it will be in November ready, I think it will take a further 4 weeks before accepting orders in December (god, I hate xmas installation date as openreach often too busy)

In reply to a post by stevebrowne:

A few weeks back it said that we couldn't get it until March next year, so I'm just pleased that it's sooner!

It could be March 2014 (accepting order) don't get our hope up too high. But, I think & trust myself that we are getting it in late November 2013 because BT is speedy it up before xmas come.

Edited by adslmax (Tue 17-Sep-13 21:47:04)

I just copy and paste from openreach email to me.

[email protected]
to me

Dear Sir,



Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband, you are connected to cuckoo Oak exchange cabinet WN/CKO 8. When rolling out fibre broadband, we don�t necessarily upgrade all the deployable cabinets at the same time. This may be for our planning or local planning reasons, engineering resource or technical issues, as such, you cabinet is still in the planning stage with the build stage commencing later this year.

If all planned works go without any problems, we are currently predicting that your cabinet will be live to take orders for fibre broadband in November 2013.



Regards



Tony Franklin
NGA Enquiries