As the commercial roll-out is ending then yes I would expect a running down of that office, with councils taking on more of the mantle of informing the local public of the roll-out, and the more they push take-up the bigger the clawback will be.

Openreach running the line was always an oddity considering their lack of interface with the consumer. If I get a bad coffee at Starbucks I don't email the coffee grower in costa rica.

The less people deal with Openreach the better, as then it means people will reduce their assumptions that it is all BT end to end, and we might see more people buying from the other FTTC/FTTP retailers.

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Openreach running the line was always an oddity considering their lack of interface with the consumer. If I get a bad coffee at Starbucks I don't email the coffee grower in costa rica.

Then we need a vendor (ISP) neutral way of determining if a certain home can order FTTC and when. The nga address was the only way that was cross CP.

If you have a Sky line, or a TalkTalk line, you can't get any data out of the BTwholesale checker, which strangely isn't an Openreach checker - which yet again reinforces the assumption that BT is actually one entity which has had different names stamped on it to hoodwink the regulator.

The less people deal with Openreach the better, as then it means people will reduce their assumptions that it is all BT end to end, and we might see more people buying from the other FTTC/FTTP retailers.

Nice idea, but too many people are clueless as to how the ADSL services worked with the LLU operators. People panic about their land line (why I don't know, I wish I could get rid of mine) and think they should have a BT line but then have any broadband, which means Sky/TalkTalk don't get the business.

The other gotcha is the phone book... cable/Sky/TalkTalk lines aren't in the phone book are they. Some people don't like this. I see its often the older generations who are more attached to the phone line, or those where mobile phone service is "patchy" (polite term) at best.

Lo! And indeed behold! I think someone must have mentioned this thread to nga enquiries .
I received a reply today. Not a concrete,unequivocal answer, more a hedging of bets but at least a message of hope.

I had a reply from them once.. only once mind. Nice chap offered to go away and check for me, haven't heard anything since despite a couple of emails in their direction.

Cabinet 78 on the "LCCHO" Chorley Exchange. Will it be upgraded? (all others in the area have) and if so when?

may be worth checking to see if covered under superfast lancs

Superfast Lancs don't appear to know anything about it apparently and got quite snarky with me..

Superfast Lancs on Twitter

so that means not in commercial buil also not in current lancashire BDUK current build - so could private fund via community / or developer