New cabs springing up like daisies now! Great to see physical evidence of progress.

Not that that's been any help for Caldy exchange. All of the cabs have been in for ages. Seems to me they are having trouble bringing in the long distance fibre from the headend (which, like Irby is Arrowebrook in Upton).

Irby should be easier though as all the hard work was done on that when Heswall was done a few years ago so there will be spare fibres in the link from the headend that can be used.

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Ground works started last Thursday or Friday, the cabinet is now stood as of today

Guess we could be looking at September at the earliest for go live?

I suspect it will be sooner than that unless there is some big issue.

Great to hear, though there are no guarantees of course, I'm just setting my personal expectations, got kind of used to waiting since March 2011 when our exchange was first slated for FTTC

Just need to choose a new ISP now.

Thanks for all the info guys, I know you do it out of the goodness of your hearts and it's appreciated.

I hope it will be soon too. The cabinets are not a good indication though. As I mentioned, there have been cabinets in place for months and months across West Kirby but none of them have any fibre to them.

Have just found this thread after searching web after more frustration and further delay in Fibre broadband at Irby Exchange.
I first looked at upgrading to Fibre broadband in Jan 2013 and saw that it was due for Irby in Dec 2013 - then it moved to May 2104, and has been pointed out in last few days this has now moved to Sept 2014 Having read earlier postings it seems that it has been a roving delay since 2011 - cannot understand how Open-Reach are allowed to get away with continuing delays not only at Irby Exchange but elsewhere in Wirral and rest of the UK.
Being a monopoly of the Optic Fibre rollout they seem to be overwhelmed, and it figures they will only looking after areas that are likely to have a bigger uptake so higher return to them. As end users we are expected to show interest with our providers, who I presume then indicate demand to OpenReach.
Surely a better way would be for OpenReach to canvass Phone Exchange districts to test possible demand uptake for Fibre, and use this as a means for rollout, it seems that the tail is wagging the dog.
I also see that on 12th June 2013 our Wirral West MP Esther McVey made the following statement after meeting BT representatives �If Wirral is to keep up and compete in the global internet market it really is paramount that BT deliver this project to Wirral West sooner rather than later and I will be keeping up the pressure on them to do just that�, added Esther.
I would suggest that we all contact her and request that she honours her pledge as this escalating delay is unacceptable .
PS I notice that yesterday they have started ground work to install new green box for Fibre at end of Whaley Lane but how long it will take to get it up and running - hmmm maybe Sept 2014 ? I wouldn't put money on it.

Just be thankful it's on its way

By the way, it was Saidin (Tom) (who started this thread) and me who trudged around the streets of Irby back in 2002 campaigning for good old ADSL!

And forget about politicians, we all know they're self serving expletive deleteds who just tell you what you want to hear.

Oh I remember your campaign - I had just moved to area a few years earlier - well done. There maybe some truth in your opinions over some Politician's - but with respect thats for another forum