It would appear that the cabinet we were talking about on Storeton Lane is the decommisioned PCP 18. So there were two or 3 cabinets on Storeton Lane at different times. Shame they got rid of so many cabinets in Irby as it has resulted in people being further away from the cabinets than they would have been.

Sparks Lane Axholme Road box being wired up today with Fibre Cable..

Engineer said should be online 10 days

Here's the current status, I might have missed one or two FTTC installs, but I think I have them all. 8 out of a total of 20 are now in but it seems that all other progress on installs has stalled. I expected the one in Irby village outside the Anchor (P7) to have been upgraded, being central village, but it seems cabinet 2 serves a lot of central village - might cabinet 7 and others now miss out? Is this the end game for Irby? I'm not asking for me, I seem to have been one of the lucky ones as my cabinet is stood.

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I've got my doubts about P7. It serves a large area but doesn't have a huge amount of customers on it so I wouldn't really expect it to be done as part of the commercial roll-out. My feeling is it won't be enabled without BDUK but I have no insider information on that so it's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Saying that though I REALLY don't understand BDUK for Merseyside. If you look at their website it says they are focusing on business users, how's that allowed? It is certainly not going to help people in Thursaston or Bidston is it? Not many business users there.

Yes, P7 is a strange one, it serves users as far away as the caravan park down at Thurstaston shore, it's miles away. I must admit, I wasn't that confident that 'my' cabinet P3 would get upgraded, given it's right on the edge of the village and semi rural.

There's also P17, just a hundred yards or so further down the road from P7 - again, not upgraded.

17 has more of a chance, denser housing.

New to this chat. Was wondering whether P7 would be my cabinet (Lyndhurst Road) because OpenReach vans were there very recently. No evidence that they have actually done anything but any action is better than nothing.

Yes, fairly sure that P7 serves Lyndhurst. Did you see the vans outside the Anchor pub, or elsewhere?

Yes, outside the pub. There were about 3 vans there one day and then another 1 just the other day. Never had a chance to chat with the guys, sadly, otherwise I would have tried to get some news. The engineers usually seem quite happy to complain about the state of the (aluminium) wires if nothing else!

Well, they were there for a reason I guess, here's hoping for you!