zom see if you can raise some prviate funding as a communty and approach openreach directly to fund it
The local conspiracy theory as to why we are being omitted goes as follows:
The areas is slightly upmarket and hence BT/local council think that we can be effectively be forced into paying for the area cab's to be upgraded by them deliberately omitting us. They think we the residents have the means to pay and so the council has us by the balls. (The two cabs have approx 200 houses on each of them).
All of which means that getting the local community to cough up is probably a non starter if most people believe this story.
My own opinion is that it is the cabinets population location demographic that is the problem. There are too many houses a long way from the Cab's and not so many close to them. So even upgraded a significant % of the lines would not achieve super/ultrafast speeds - depending on how your define it.
So in terms of BDUK funds used/No of residents helped it would be better to spend the money elsewhere in the county.
Perhaps they will never be upgraded regardless of funds availability until an alternative technology like FTTDistribution Point come along with mini-pole mounted Dslams that makes the FTTC cab conversion and property distance from it an irrelevance.
(Ironically I'm located very close to one of the cabs!)
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