ever thought openreach are swamped (excuse the pun) with the flooding and bad weather bringing lines down and stuff im afraid you may be bottom of the pile right now as personnel are deployed elsewhere

Well that explains now. But the last seven months? Even three weeks ago? Yeah. fail.

I think that's probably more likely. Although why just upset me when I know other people on the cabinet eager to get it.

sjdean, I had sent you private message.

sjdean the commercial rollout is a commercial decision at least your cab is till in the programme and not pulled !!!!

I reckon Openreach planners don't just have economic data in their planning spreadsheets, nor just predictions about takeup. I reckon they really deploy conspiracy-theorist detectors too...

When the quota gets too high, all common sense is parked. They deliberately leave the cabinet there, tantalisingly close, and re-plan. The new plans is set up to tease and antagonise the theorist as much as possible, by showing agonisingly slow progress.

They obviously understand the theory that negative publicity is better than no publicity at all, and arrange to feed conspiracy theorists with as much fodder as they can muster.

I mean, why else would they do this? There can be no other reason, right? And what's a few thousand pounds in subscriptions compared to the fun they're having!

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

sjdean the commercial rollout is a commercial decision at least your cab is till in the programme and not pulled !!!!

Although my point is the apparent abject failure for OpenReach to plan this in any meaningful way. Surely having to keep revisiting cabinets to clear blockages in a sequential rather than parallel manner and not working on immediately neighbouring cabs at the same time, only serves to fundamentally prolong and increase the cost of the roll out and therefore the cost to us as consumers.

I realise your post is tongue in cheek. However the delay on my cabinet is actually, when you look at the facts, completely absurd. Come up with some meaningful explanation rather than the standard cut and paste and I'll probably agree with you. Seriously, 7 months delay to find an "alternative route" and install 12 metres of trunking. Closest cab to the exchange and no other work en-route has been seen or noted.

sjdean this is around logistics and milestones if you need to find x number of cabinets by X date you do all the one with no hold up that dont miss their slot - add to the the milestones around BDUK and a fully scheduled workstack that booked months in advance any problems such as duct , pwer or permission issud and you miss a slot on a cab it migh ttake 7 - 8 months or longer to find another slot -- this is around the scale of the programme that seen in excess of 45,000 cabinets installed over the last 4 or so years (also the commercail programme is completing 2 years earier than originally expected

Edited by deleted (Sun 16-Feb-14 21:43:46)

I wonder if they have moved some of these problem cabinets over to BDUK schemes, one of our local cabinets NDRAM21 has always been scheduled, but has only just been installed. Yesterday I noticed some road works nearby that mention BDUK, cab 21 is the only cabinet nearby which isn't live.