Congrats

Just checked cabinet 9 - now changed from under review to enabled area - very frustrating

Well it's a good sign, because mine was under review yesterday, and it went to Enabled Area today and then Accepting Orders today. Now looking to buy a package from a good ISP and have a Modem only box. Can anyone make recommendations for ISP?

We'll hope 4 & 9 soon follow -
re recommendation for good ISP for Fibre there are many deals out there , but as the saying goes 'you only get what you pay for'. Guess it depends on what your demand will be from the household , gaming, streaming, large downloads/uploads etc.
Sometimes the cheaper monthly deals will put a cap on usage , go over this and it could be expensive, unlimited and your safer, and of course there's Infinity 1 & 2 , guess this will depend on your locality to FTTC and how far it is from exchange.
Personally I have been checking forums for both Sky & BT ( I am currently with Sky ) and on there Fibre BB forum there are many complaints of reducing of speed, but this seems to be if you are on lower package. It is said BT do not reduce speed , so from my perspective I am looking at moving to BT , as I have phone with them for business . No doubt there will be varying opinions and more expert comment on your question

Well I hope for the best, hopeully Irby's map will auto update when changes happen.

As for an internet plan, caps are stupid, I expect to download at least 20TB a month for the first few months. I did a little research and I think I need to buy an unlocked Huawei HG612 modem and probably will have to go with BT for 80/20.

Been waiting a while for cabinet 9, hopefully it follows suit. Recently moved to Sky as only had to pay line rental after being with EE since moving here couple of years ago. Been getting intermittent lag during gaming and issues streaming via Now TV though. Not sure yet whether the problem is on Sky's end or mine. In a 12 month contact butI suspect they'd have no problem me upgrading to fibre and restarting another contract at whatever the current price is.

Just an update on #9. 2 vans (1 open reach, didn't catch the other) outside the cabinet this morning with ground opened up.

Thanks for update

In reply to a post by XboxAsap:

Thanks for update

Further Update - saw chap at Cabinet #9 with Laptop as going out shopping - on return saw that cabinet now has a silver coloured lock instead of green - hopefully soon AO

Great to see an area that already has respectable ADSL speeds is getting FTTC before us poor yokels on cabinets 2 and 3...

I hear there is some controversy over the placement of the cabinet outside the Anchor pub?