As mentioned earlier, uplift = "The multiplier of the average speed in the postcode before upgrade, to get to the average speed in the postcode after the upgrade."

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

What I find interesting is that it seems to know what sort of cabinet is going to be provided. It lists my cabinet as Huawei

I expect this will turn out to be an artefact of the way the source data arrives at Adam.

That will be in the form of a spreadsheet; it wouldn't surprise me if the column were numeric, where zero meant Huawei... and rows where the deployment is unknown default to a zero value.

Is the 66% Commercial Plan the percentage that BT are funding, with the remaining being funded by bduk?
My postcode is not part of the 66% Commercial Plan and the serving cabinet has not been upgraded.

I did receive an email from nga.enquiries several months ago mentioning that my cabinet area has been resurveyed and it is due to get fttp. If this is the case, do you think that it would have been on this latest April 2014 spreadsheet?
Any ideas ?

BT have self-funded coverage of 66%, and the comment on the website refers to this section.

Remember that VM have self-funded coverage of 48% too. The two areas don't entirely overlap, so the total covered by these two amounts to around 78%, IIRC.

Phase 1 of BDUK subsidises coverage of the gap between 78% and 90% (though half the subsidy comes from local councils and the EU, while BT invests some too). The website refers to this part too.

Phase 2 of BDUK subsidises coverage of the gap between 90% and 95%, but little of the plans are set in stone yet. Some councils are trying to figure out how to tweak the funding to get closer to 100%.

FTTP appears so infrequently on the concrete plans, and has been pushed back massively before now, that I doubt if people can really tell you whether it would, or would not, have been in the spreadsheet.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

That will be in the form of a spreadsheet; it wouldn't surprise me if the column were numeric, where zero meant Huawei... and rows where the deployment is unknown default to a zero value.

Not sure... it shows a Huawei for one of the local cabinets which is only just on roadworks.org and doesn't exist yet, but that column is blank for the last cabinet on the exchange which isn't on roadworks.org yet.

If you put in CT188DP you'll see cabinet 2 which is in place and is a Huawei, and 5 which is on roadworks.org for a few weeks time and definitely isn't there yet which it also says Huawei for. CT214HB shows 6 and shows no make for that one.

It could be that they aren't going to do 6, but there are more people on it than 5 I think.

My cabinet is currently being updated as part of the Durham Digital rollout but nothing seems to have updated on the web anywhere yet. The new cab is up and I've seen Openreach guys working on it.

Thanks WWWombat.

We've been trying to identify any potential problems, and are fairly confident all those you've suggested are not applicable to our particular cabinet. We're in the process of setting up a website - fibre.everestpark.org.uk - to document the cabinet, and how obvious a candidate it is to be upgraded now, and have some evidence ruling out many potential problems on the site.

We've not widely publicised the site yet as we still have some photographs and graphics to add to it (eg/ shots of the 4 existing FTTC cabinets along the same main road with our cabinet or development in the same picture - all are within about 300m of our development (two within 100m of my house). Once that's done we plan to leaflet all residents to highlight the website and gauge how many people actually would expect to buy a fibre service it were available. We then plan to highlight the results to Openreach, the local council, and the developers of both phases of the development to try and get some action.

The PCP itself is on an area of grass verge besides a county council maintained road, and we fairly sure the grass surrounding the cabinet is maintained by the council. There is plenty of space for a fibre twin adjacent to the cabinet, and power 'on tap'. The second (final) phase of the development was approved in 2009 so eventual number of properties has been known for some time - all are now complete; the first phase was built before 2009.

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In reply to a post by WWWombat:

There are also 2 problems that turn up in new-build areas:
- BT didn't know how big the cabinet was (or was going to get) at the time of planning, a fact that may continue to be ignored throughout the commercial rollout. At the most extreme, it ends up being ignored by BDUK because it ought to have been commercial, but is still ignored by BT. At best, the BDUK project takes time to identify these, and works with BT to make sure they get done (as seen by the Warwickshire project)

- The road hasn't yet been adopted by the local authority. In this case, BT have no right to install the cabinet, and the builder is not incentivised to let them (they just want the authority to take the road off their hands ASAP).

Sage words, both issues had to be overcome by the campaign here.

We're now at the stage where the first Huawei 288 is going to be full in a month or two, having been enabled 6 months ago and spent over 2 months with no capacity on line cards.

My cabinet (19, on the Melrosegate exchange) shows the following -

Phase: Phase 11b
Deployment date: [blank]
Status: Part of the 66% Commercial Plan

so when might I get fibre?!