I don't actually want to come across as an insufferable know it all. I've got a list of cabinets so far that I've mapped out

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=
215556211082981061880.0004e05045aca7a0e3213

Bearing in mind that all cabinets are installed and connected to power, they're just waiting for fibre, and in the case of 21, fibre runs out the front of it round to cabinet 16 a little further away....

The first few cabinets they enabled were in a line and made geographical sense. But then they enabled the furthest cabinet north away bypassing the cabinets in between and then moving south, moving back north and filling in the blanks, forgetting the rest in the south, going north east....

There are cabinets a little further out in the sticks that will require a little extra work as the date has changed, and I could understand that for my cabinet. Cabinet 19 now has a date of May 2014, Im guessing because that can't be found, it might be in a back alley somewhere. Cabinet 18 meanwhile is nicely tucked away on the pavement and has no date.

Fair enough, there are problems.

But I don't think there's any wayleaves required (except for the one which I think might be round the back of a supermarket), they're all connected to power, they all have the ducting in place. Im just not following the haphazard nature of it all.

It's not geographical, it's not numeric order, it's not even a case of install the farthest away and fill in the blanks! Going South, they did 15, bypassed 21 and did 16, even though 21 is en route to 16, and 16 which is the end of the run wasn't enabled before 15....

Of course it's financially motivated, they're not doing it just to be nice.

Quite a lot of our cabinets have been skipped, even though fibre runs nearby. These are probably judged financially unviable. Either due to not enough connected properties, or they don't want to risk losing profitable leased lines from businesses.

As I said before, there is one cabinet which was installed over a year ago, I would think fibre runs right past to other nearby cabinets, and I see there being no problem with power, but something must be a problem. Can't see them just forgetting, but I suppose it could happen.

Take a look at my map, link in signature. All cabinets have there history viewable by clicking on them.

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

As I said before, there is one cabinet which was installed over a year ago, I would think fibre runs right past to other nearby cabinets, and I see there being no problem with power, but something must be a problem. Can't see them just forgetting, but I suppose it could happen.

That's exactly my point though. I don't think it's a case they've forgotten and the chances of there being a problem is really small. It seems silly to install a cabinet, to plan an installation and then not bother.

It more than likely is financially motiviated, which is actually less of a problem for me if people come clean over it. If they start with the "oh plans, and ducts etc" I'd be still thinking, you installed ten cabs in two weeks, why is the next 15 going to take three months and they're in a close physical location! I've seen other people who have had woofly waffling from BT and Im sure they just make it up as they want to depending on other eligibility critieria which sees cabinets come in and out of the equation on what is perceived to be currently a random basis.

Your cabinet is probably one of those ones that they just can't really be bothered with while they got something better to do.

Incidentally my cab is one of two that have been rescheduled to 31st December 2013 with another new cabinet the opposite side of the area also scheduled for 31st December 2013 which is just totally bonkers.

Incidentally, one of those cabinets, cabinet 12, also has cabinet 11 on the other side of the road, but that has no FTTC cabinet yet, but has been scheduled for 31st May 2014! It's on the other side of the road, barely 100 yards away!

If they can physically install the cabinet in less than two weeks, why the hell would it take an extra five months to route the fibre to Cabinet 12? The mind boggles.

And when I see complete and total nonsense like that, I just realise how pathetic BT are. My cabinet will probably be enabled in a day, that's the irony of it, there probably won't be any problems, but I just get the sense that they can't be bothered yet.

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Sep-13 19:14:30)

So in summary you think BT have spent the money on the cabinet hardware and install and are just leaving it there consuming electricity and earning them no revenue because they can't be bothered with it?

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

So in summary you think BT have spent the money on the cabinet hardware and install and are just leaving it there consuming electricity and earning them no revenue because they can't be bothered with it?

In the short term, yes.

Explain otherwise why a cabinet can be installed for a year with seemingly no problems but never enabled? It probably be will enabled at some point in the future, but for now, not.

Which cabinet, specifically?

Several of those cabinets have completed so should be available soon.

Maybe the two fibre people are elsewhere?

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Which cabinet, specifically?

The one R0NSKI was referring to.

However my cabinet is Cabinet 13 on CMSPR... While I would like that to be done sooner for obvious reasons, it appears that has been moved back to December 13, and I see no obvious reasons why... Cabinets in, power etc since July, but no fibre yet. However I am interested in seeing some progress being made in the general area, in this case I would like to know what is happening with cabinets 21 (the bypassed cab), 14 and 22 which are in close proximity to cabinet 16 and the scale of delays raises an eyebrow given how fast I know these installers can work....

As I say, I saw a fibre engineer doing some work up by cabinet 23, it was live on dsl checker within a few days!