Cabinet has now been installed. Looks like an Huwaei 288 line cab.

In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

Cabinet has now been installed. Looks like an Huwaei 288 line cab.

any photo please?

I'll try and get one when I take the dog out later but it's identical to this :-

Cab

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

orders can happen before an exchange is marked as AO.

I was installed and running whilst my exchange was CS.

I can confirm this as well. Openreach "Where and When" for LCULV still says CS 31/12/13 at this very moment, and we've had FTTC installed and running in the house for a week

Then the BT official When & Where plus Wholesale Checker is a waste of time if it doesn't updated in time.

I also notice Telford bring in lots of Huwaei 288 line cabinets.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Then the BT official When & Where plus Wholesale Checker is a waste of time if it doesn't updated in time.

I also notice Telford bring in lots of Huwaei 288 line cabinets.

The exchange is marked as RFS when a certain number of cabinets are live, not as soon as the first one goes live. It's a balancing act between annoying people due to 500 premises on a 30,000 premises exchange being able to receive and giving information late.

The wholesale checker carries the appropriate information. The Microsite is not authoritative.

Yeah I can see why they wouldn't mark ours as live yet - it's mostly the outskirts that are enabled, most of the actual town centre still has inactive cabs!

There are actually 10, which is a number I saw bandied around somewhere for an exchange to be marked as live, but it must be a more manual process.

My cab enable date is now Nov 30th

Really looking forward to moving over to FTTC.

Excellent news; I hope it all goes smoothly and you get an early Christmas present

Cheers, fingers crossed!