I went to an event today at the Emirates Arena (part of the Velodrome). This was "part of an ongoing consultation process" for the Commonwealth Games.
I asked specifically about the FTTH to the athletes' flats, but the people there knew nothing at all about the fibre, didn't seem to even know it's scheduled. And had no idea at all about what will happen to it after the Games.

Wow. Maybe CCG, Cruden and MTM know more about it though. Generally during construction all the house builder will do is install the ducting and if the FTTH is going ahead here, they will just leave pull rope in place allowing BT to then run the fibre in.

I reckon it just means them not knowing about it is probably down to the actual housebuilders not installing it themselves.

Had an openreach engineer at the house having a look at my ADSL line (line sync problems etc, doesnt matter), but I got chatting with him about the commonwealth village and the lines going in there.

He was telling me that they are going in there next week to start connecting each of the properties but he was telling me that there is no copper going into any of the houses there.

How does this work then for new builds with FTTP but no copper going in? What if you just wanted a phone line and no broadband? Also, wouldnt this mean that the cost for having any kind of internet into these houses will cost you a fortune with the minimum package at 330mbit?

Just curious!

It sounds like the same at the Olympic village in London.
Native FTTP mirrors the same speed options as FTTC with the additional options only available for FTTP.
Only fibre on demand has the 330Mbit/s restriction.

What happened at the Olympic village after the games finished ? I mean what happened to the flats ?
The Commonwealth games ones are slated to become ordinary housing afterwards, although with modifications I believe.
Given that the Games people will have paid for the FTTP installs, I would imagine that new tenants would only have to pay normal rentals, maybe a re-connection fee.

An FTTP activation where it is a native FTTP rather than a fibre on demand is the same wholesale price as for FTTC, i.e. £90

A quick update and there have been several more cabinets activated since I last updated the map here - http://goo.gl/maps/az6aJ

A drive along London Road today showed two Openreach vans installing BFT from near Cabinet 62 at Birnan Road up to Methven Street. There was however, another drum of BFT sitting at Canmore street which would now tell me that they are getting close to setting up for possibly Cabinet 34 and Cabinet 74.

Edited by deleted (Mon 10-Mar-14 13:23:58)

Amazing work on this btw, sorry I missed it the first time around.
Dare I ask,did your scatter gun approach involve purely manual labour?
I'd be very curious if anyone has created a semi-automatic way to estimate cabinet locations then adjust the location by a notch or two once the "donkey" work has been done?
Cheers,
flipdee

The scatter gun approach was a few hours work. At the time I just picked random streets, used Royal Mail's "find a postcode" and cross referenced these with http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.Addres... site.

As it was, all the cabinets were actually listed on the December 2011 PCP spreadsheet for Bridgeton Exchange, so even though I had managed to find about 70% of these, I was able to find the remaining cabinets by using this spreadsheet. For example, Cabinet 106 only serves 1 postcode according to the PCP spreadsheet, so I would have had a hard time trying to find that cabinet using a scatter gun approach. As it is, that postcode gets about 16mbit on ADSL2, so it's not exactly falling behind in terms of speed.

There is a quick method though by using this website (however, I think it limits you to a number of searches per day) - http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm

Here's an example to look at Cabinet 106 - http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm?xid=72...

Sadly I don't think magenta's site allows "sharing" of searches, most likely a cookie restriction.