My letter just arrived, much more vague. She mentioned she's had discussions with senior management at OPenreach etc. But no dates, no mention of Whaley Lane in Feb.

Glad you got reply - I would not have expected here to refer to ducting issue in Whaley Lane as if I recall you live up near the Anchor PH, but by contacting her, as hopefully others have in Irby area will add more weight to level of frustration over continual delays in high speed connection in the area.

It's my understanding that the Whaley Lane duct is the common factor that is delaying FTTC for Irby.

But then again, I could be wrong. This is symptomatic of the entire experience of dealing with Openreach. You're left to scour forums, hope for crumbs of info from helpful 'insiders' etc.

It bugs me that I pay the same monthly line rental to BT as other towns do that have had FTTC for 3 years or more.

/cry baby face.

In reply to a post by Irby:

It's my understanding that the Whaley Lane duct is the common factor that is delaying FTTC for Irby.

But then again, I could be wrong. This is symptomatic of the entire experience of dealing with Openreach. You're left to scour forums, hope for crumbs of info from helpful 'insiders' etc.

It bugs me that I pay the same monthly line rental to BT as other towns do that have had FTTC for 3 years or more.

/cry baby face.

Yes I do believe the ducting in Whaley Lane is most likely an issue, but as I have pointed out OpenReach will only deal with service providers - the Government of the day ensured that BT was split & making its service arm for BB & phones infrastructure a separate entity in the interests of competition .
As it says on Openreach website
'We were created to give communications providers equal access to the wires and fibres that connect us all, and to maintain and improve this infrastructure, which underpins the entire UK communication industry."
So we have no way of influencing or getting info of any substance from them, other than thru our service providers by requesting High Speed BB, on forums, insiders or our MP .
How on earth can Openreach gauge interest in Superfast BB in an area to warrant investment & return, clearly the Government have set aside money, the EU & local Government for it, but the service providers are not asking us the end users if we would like Superfast BB, as far as I know , so its a chicken & egg situation .
I also have issues over having to pay one provider for Broadband & BT for phone, but I will not change until we get Superfast BB in Spring fingers x'd

2 engineers working on cabinet 10 a few hours ago.

Just worked out that this cabinet is already live for FTTC, map edited accordingly.

Edited by Irby (Tue 13-Jan-15 14:02:48)

Credit to Esther McVey, she's just written to me again without me writing to her first, with an update.

Cabinet 3 has ducts that are 'silted up' and require clearing, ETA for orders is Spring*. But these are OpenReach estimates, so, you know.

* whatever Spring means these days.

Drove along Greasby Road this afternoon and as I stopped at Traffic Lights - happened to see barriers on nearside pavement around recently tarmac trench - posters on barrier read - Bringing Fibre Broadband to Greasby - lets hope I see them in Whaley Lane in February - Bringing Fibre Broadband to Irby
Nice to hear Esther McVey is keeping up the pressure on Openreach/BT

I've updated the map, several cabinets now offering FTTC on the south east side of the exchange (Thingwall/Pensby) that I didn't know about.

Interesting observation at lunch time today in car , whilst at junction of Thingwall Road & Irby Road near Anchor PH , saw two chaps in Yellow High Viz. jackets one with BT & other Openreach on back , talking to group of people - maybe coincidence ? - thanks for updater on map - things are moving

Great news - this morning I see that contractors are working on installing new ducting in Whaley Lane - I was a bit concerned that OpenReach were going to miss February deadline .