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From starting the build in an area to appearing on a checker it can be six months or more
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Nothing is built extra for FTTPoD until someone places an order, ie. areas where FTTPoD can be ordered have exactly the same fibre roll-out as the other areas with FTTC cabinets Not sure I understand- does that mean that any area with FTTC can have FTTPoD, and if not what determines which ones can have it and which can't?
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A few people have mentioned tubing in relation to whatever is happening.
You never used that word. Just two BT people doing some work.
What sort of work?
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I meant i have seen pictures online so i know what to look out for, not sure what they was doing, they just had the cover up on the pavement and i seen loads of wires in there.
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In theory yes any area with FTTC has the pre-requisite aggregation node and fibre to close to the cabinet ready for FTTPoD.
Why limited areas, because BT is not ready to do FTTPoD on demand en-masse.
Of course BT FTTP is GPON which will upset some fibre purists
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This is all confusing, i guess it is just a matter of me waiting to see if the words coming from the BT guys is true or false?.
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I have seen pictures of the fibre manifold so i will go look soon and see if the pole has one as it is only just outside my house.
If you are getting FTTP via an overhead feed (i.e. from a pole) it'll be unlikely you'll see a manifold on the pole for quite a while yet. The giveaway at this early stage will be if there is a length of fibre tubing coiled up at the base of the pole waiting for the next team to come and run it up the pole and fit the manifold.
In my case it was several months between the tubing being pulled through to the pole via the ducting to the chamber nearby where it was left coiled up (and tucked behind the pole) and the manifold being fitted.
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http://blog.thinkbroadband.com/2013/04/it-is-surpris...
Some examples of an area with FTTP roll-out underway but paused.
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Some examples of an area with FTTP roll-out underway but paused.
I'm not sure 'paused' is the right word - just waiting for the next team to complete their work. 
I don't live a million miles from the examples in your article and can confirm that most of the town (at least 95% according to the Superfast Cornwall site) can now get either FTTP or FTTC (I'd say probably about 50% or possibly more can get FTTP).
Although I do have a friend who is due to have FTTP via overhead feed whose number appeared on the checker last year as FTTP available only for it to disappear, which I can only put down to blocked ducting as the next pole along his street has had the manifold fitted and is 'live'.
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The giveaway at this early stage will be if there is a length of fibre tubing coiled up at the base of the pole waiting for the next team to come and run it up the pole and fit the manifold.
..or a blue "towrope" tied round the base of the pole and feeding down into a hole, leading to the distribution point, ready to pull the fibre tubing through and up to the manifold
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