In reply to a post by thesasgeek:

I'm on Cheltenham 151 too but can't get Virgin either.

I'm going round in circles trying to find out why it was deemed unviable and how to get them to reevaluate.

I'm going to see the local MP about the issue to try and get his help.

Did you manage to see the MP about this / have any luck? I emailed the MP and the local councillor (Andrew McKinlay) and didn't get a reply from either!

Hello,

I've had a number of conversations with Andrew McKinlay and people from Martin Horwood's office. I've also been speaking to someone at BT (not Openreach) on the situation.

I have an appointment with Mr Horwood when he returns from holiday.

If there's any information you wish me to bring to his attention or join me at the meeting?

I've also asked Virgin to review the options to get cable broadband to my address - given that my address is on Chargrove Lane.

If you wish to email privately, I can PM you my email address.

Fingers crossed then! I've PMed you about the meeting and my email address too.

Did you manage to find out why 151 wasn't commercially viable?

Good luck with Virgin!

For those interested, we have setup a local campaign at www.cheltenham151.com

Email [email protected] they are looking for small infills in areas like yours. You never know....

It's not the number connected to the PCP there are many different factors taken into account.

I went to a Gigaclear presentation the other day. They specifically target communities that will not have public money spent on them under the BDUK plans. They work to bring FTTP to communities at surprisingly affordable prices. But they don't go where BDUK do. Might be worth registering interest with them.

That's a good tip, will give it a go cheers.

Well we was down for FTTP back in 2011 where they started to install the fibre, we even got to the stage where they fitted the fibre manifold in the pit and the enclosure up the pole.
Three and a bit years later still nothing and we are now down to not being viable even though half our road has it (i.e. 5 to 8 doors away), even though we was "Part of BT's 66% Commercial Plan", we are not even covered by the BDUK due to we get over the 2Mb speed and also the BDUK spread sheet says we covered by extensive commercial deployments, even though BT/OpenReach says we are not.

The guy across the road from us was told the other week that we are not viable for FTTP (even though we was back in 2011) but now might be for FTTC, I am fine with that, at least it would be better than what we currently get.

The annoying thing is that they have now put us at the back of the list and we have been told we will have to wait for the UK to be all fibred up before we get it, this is completely not fair, at the point where they got greedy and decided on making it not viable and moved us over to FTTC they should of started the process of the rollout for FTTC etc, not put us to the end of the list.

And to top that off we cannot even get VM here.

So we are now stuck with a rubbish slow BB connection that drops connection all over the place when it rains, we cannot even ask for an engineer to come out due to the time they come out its all dried up and working again until it rains again.

Our broadband speed is that slow its slower than 74% of the broadband connections of GB, now that is bad.

Not very happy at all.

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

Our broadband speed is that slow its slower than 74% of the broadband connections of GB, now that is bad.

So, your broadband speed is faster than 25% of the broadband connections of GB. That seems pretty good. No great, but perfectly fine to be going along with until something better is available.