For what it's worth they're really not hanging around here in Ulverston! (Though I think an alliance of businesses here is paying for much of it, so no doubt they're under immense pressure to get our town done ASAP... the pacing may vary in other towns)

Precisely 1 month ago we first spotted Openreach vans pottering around near the exchange with a big reel of fiber. Did a bit of research and found all the planning permission and the link for checking your number etc and that sure enough, it's due here 31st December.

3 weeks ago we noticed numbers had been painted on the BT cabinets. Figured it'd be a while, never thought much of it. Went on holiday on the 13th, came back on the 20th to find the whole town had been kitted out with fiber cabinets (with roadworks around them)! Wow!

Did some more reading, learned that it doesn't mean much, cabinets can be sat there for 3-6-12-even 18 months before activation.

In the past 4 days though they've finished connecting the nearest couple of cabinets to the mains and the copper cabinets and filled in the road again, and today Openreach have been spotted on their little seats connecting everything up.

I'm cautiously optimistic that things could be done in record time over here O_O

Good to hear. Hopefully that sense of urgency will be infectious.

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

I can beat that my exchange went live in April and guess how many cabinets are accepting orders? one! lol

Some cabinets say available 30-Sep 2013 (which I do not believe as they just keep moving the dates) where others say April 2014 which is a year after the exchange went live.

Hopefully your lucky though

Im having trouble figuring out BT's roll out plan on my Exchange.

Although they've physically installed and powered loads of cabinets, they haven't connected them all yet up to fibre.

First they enabled three cabinets on an west to east line road. Fair enough. Then there seemed to be a huge delay in anything else, I figured they might be "testing" before rolling out to the rest.

Next thing I know, they enabled "cabinet 1" a mile north from my exchange. So maybe they're doing it by cabinet order? Except then they jumped to cabinet 15 which is a quarter mile the other way and the first cabinet south from the Exchange!

Continuing to go South, they skipped enabling the next cabinet, 21, and then enabled the one round the corner, cabinet 16!

Then they moved back north and have enabled the cabinets between a mile north cabinet 1 and the exchange.

DSL Checker shows that that there are three cabinets near cabinet 16 - 13 and 14 and 22 which they've so far ignored. They still haven't done anything for the cabinet they skipped on the main road, cabinet 21.

They've skipped cabinet 21 and enabled cabinet 23 which is about half a mile north east from the Exchange (but would explain the CASS van I saw and a guy blowing fibre through there).

So there's no geographic reasoning, no numbering reason, no logic I can think of to explain why they choose which installed FTTC cabinet to enable.

It's like they just stick in a pin into map blindfolded.

On top of that, although they took off at a blistering speed enabling around 9 cabinets in around two weeks. But over the past two weeks, they've done one or two cabs at the most!

I can't figure it out.

sjdean - openreach had to negotiating a Wayleave for permission to install our plant, this may cause further delays.

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/contactus/wayle...

They seem to be doing our outer estate first, 2 guys have been spotted today connecting things to both our fibre and copper cabinets. Whilst the town centre still has roadworks in most places. Maybe it's done from a random number generator or something though, to shorten any "why did you favour x over me?" calls.

Of course, they could be trolling us and ours could be sat there for a year while town whizzes on!

Plusnet said it was available (despite wholesale checker still saying 31st December) and tried to put the order through but of course it failed, maybe that's a sign it's getting pretty close though.

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When they enabled our cabinets, it seemed to go in stages, and the cabinets seemed to make sense, like they were along a common line, a bit like roots spreading out.

However, there were the odd cabinets which took some time to enable, one still isn't after 15 months of being installed, and there are still a couple which have not even been installed yet.

All sorts of problems hold them up, from gaining permission (where required), wayleaves, power supply, blocked ducts. Street works permits etc.

So what seems completely random to you could have a perfectly good explanation behind the scenes.

Mine are suppose to be ready by November 2013 but it now delayed until March 2014. Disappointed.,

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to me

Dear Mr ************,



Thank you for your enquiry regarding Fibre Broadband.



The cabinet feeding your line PCP8 is not due for deployment until end-November 2013, however we are currently negotiating a Wayleave for permission to install our plant, this may cause further delays until end-March 2014.

Please be aware that the engineering work required to commission a Fibre Broadband cabinet is often complex and should conditions on the ground change, there is a risk that the delivery date may be effected. Please track the date for commissioning through the line checker of your chosen service provider.

Please note that many sites that show Fibre Broadband availability dates only show when the exchange goes live and not individual cabinets off that particular exchange.

If you have any further questions, please ensure you have read the FAQ's on our website, http://www.openreachfibrebroadband.co.uk/faq/ . If your question is answered within the FAQ section, we may not respond to your e-mail.



Regards



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In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

When they enabled our cabinets, it seemed to go in stages, and the cabinets seemed to make sense, like they were along a common line, a bit like roots spreading out.

However, there were the odd cabinets which took some time to enable, one still isn't after 15 months of being installed, and there are still a couple which have not even been installed yet.

All sorts of problems hold them up, from gaining permission (where required), wayleaves, power supply, blocked ducts. Street works permits etc.

So what seems completely random to you could have a perfectly good explanation behind the scenes.

But that's the problem. The cabinets are in, the ducting is in, the power is connected, the fibre even runs past one cabinet that has been bypassed in the process. They have made extraordinary progress with the enabling majority of cabinets, and then just stalled.

Even Cabinet 1 a mile away, they enabled, went past about 3 cabinets and a while later did they actually enable those.

So no, I don't buy that there's any plan. There are no odd eceptions, there's no pattern. It's probably financially motivated IMHO.

Simon