PCP 24 is live today full 80meg down and 20meg up available here. Just ordered for the 23rd

It wouldn't make a difference who won the contract - the rollout would be no different. Whether they do 1 cab per area or all of them also makes no difference. As soon as 1 cab is done, they seem to class that area as enabled and have little inclination to go back and upgrade any cabs that are denied for whatever reason!

Not forgetting that the Haven waterway zone which was supposed to be a priority area was not started until after various areas around Newport and Swansea and north Wales that were not on Cardiff bays "priority list" were completed.

There are many aspects to the roll out that smell bad, in fact the first phase seemed to be more about politics than serving rural communities.

I don't buy the explanation, it seems more like a "go away" fudge than a serious attempt to answer a question. The new site of PCP29 is quite close to the original site, There are no planning issues, I don't believe that the move can entail a huge amount of delay if the will was there to actually get the job done.

I think The neglected parts of Pembroke are getting the big finger in the persuit of the lie about Fibre coverage.

Although I'm really grateful they're doing my CAB, there's still huge areas of Tenby (a lot of them the more upper class areas!) that haven't been announced and this is really going to cause upset.

I still haven't sound out why, out of the 12 CABs announced, 2 were turned down (1 of them, on a housing estate, after having been installed, had to be removed!). The other is on the Green under the viaduct completely out of the way. Yet the approved a brand new CAB outside a 500yr old-ish church where there's never been one before! Shows the craziness of the Pembs Coast National PArk planners!!

What is really frustrating for me is that my cab doesnt fall under national parks remit, its pure ol' PCC and they have said "go ahead", so now we are waiting for someone to carry out the works that should have been done & was scheduled to be done 3 months ago. The feeling is we will be a long time waiting.

Tenby has been quite lucky in the past, despite being a smaller exchange they got LLU long before Pembroke did, and they even have a choice of LLU operators.

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From a BT Engineer I spoke to months ago, he reckons it's because of the tourist influx - Tenby's population for most of the year now is well over 10,000 and 45-65,000 during July - Sept. Quite how that would affect an ISP's decision making as to whether to LLU an exchange I don't know as tourists hardly rent a phone line whilst they're here!

Just to add to my annoyance ... BT have today spammed my street with thier wonderful £5 per month Fibre optic broadband offer.

Do these muppets not know which postcodes they are NOT serving at this time?

Still no sign of any movement.... life in the slow lane goes on, with occasional pauses while the line has another hissy fit and spits out the connection.

Had a reply from my Assembly Member this week, She included a copy of correspondence from Cardiff bay dated 23rd of September, in which they state the following.

I have checked with our colleagues in BT on the Roll Out of cabinet 29 within the Superfast Cymru programme.The cabinet is within our plans however, at present there are issues with planning and siting the cabinet, until these are resolved I am unable to give your constituent a date of when work on deploying the cabinet will take place

Sounds reasonable, expect that in late August, I spoke with planning at Pembrokeshire County Council to see if there were issues with which my local Councillor could help. I was told that there was a reference number for this matter and that the "re siting" of this had been agreed and that there were no concerns or conditions attached to the location. He indicated that this seemed to have taken place in late July/early August, which would tie in with the problem preventing out cabinet being stood in mid June.

Someone somewhere isnt telling the truth, months have passed by and we still have no service while other areas locally are being enabled, and no-one can tell me if we are looking at weeks or months before we are remembered. I guess we are not as important as others on the borders of urban areas that were pushed to the first phase of this fiasco.

More drops in my adsl joke service this week. which just shows what a joke line rental is, they screw you over for as much as possible while avoiding doing anything about faults (apart from trying to con you with SFI charges)

Superfarce & Openjoke really does describe them!

You ever think about moving providers? I was suffering the same problem as you only perhaps worse in Tenby 2 weeks ago, rang PlusNet and next morning BT engineer turns up, swapped line (so my wife said as I wasn't there) and hey presto - job done.

Graph before
Graph now

The drop at 6.20ish yesterday was a Tenby-wide power cut.

Line drops have been a feature of service to this property during the more than 10 years on Broadband - with Pipex (521k & 2 Meg ) Enta (ADSLMax) and Vivaciti (Daisy LLU and Enta).
Ive had enginers visits, line card moves, E side changed, removed all phone wiring except the master, all to no avail. I think the issue is in the D side, but Openjoke seem unwilling to consider this, but after all this time - it is the only thing that hasn't changed

If the issue persists once fibre finally reaches me (If Ever) then hopefully it will prove or disprove my theory once and for all.