Let's just hope there ain't a fault in the cab otherwise it will get pushed back to ug and the cycle will start all over again

Some years back some poor sod was working at a cab in London when it and him were wiped out ! They did find the money to move the cab then , not that it did much good for the poor ex engineer.

Exactly Bert, what many fail to recall is the risks sometimes undertaken.

What a saga this is turning out to be.
Its with Openreach "Traffic management team" is the standard answer given when chased. You would think I was asking Openreach to plan open heart surgery, not install a telephone line.

I've been escalated to level 2 (whatever that really means) and have to wait another week before it can be escalated any further. Given that I'm keeping an eye on local council road restriction website and they need minimum of 2 weeks notice its looking highly likely I wont even get a phone line until late December at best, possibly even into next year and then I'll have a whole new set of hoops to jump through to get them to go into the FTTC cabinet. Damn you Openreach ...

When I retired a decade ago all highway works were subject to the Public Utilities and Street Works Act. This lays down the required signage and dimensions for safe working areas to protect the construction crews, be they on Mway crash barrier or busy street cabinet, and goes on to specify reinstatement standards for excavations. This is why large sections of lane are closed with no work going on -- it's to protect the workers, not to annoy the populace. Breaches of the Act are a criminal offence.

It must be immensely frustrating to have one's BB depending on this rigmarole and I agree that OR and ISP just don't seem to work together. But I've been on A-road and motorway works, with 30-ton chunks of metal hurtling past a few feet away, and I've been really frightened. These regulations are needed, so please spare a thought for the spray-drenched guys crouched at the roadside in all weathers.

and then I'll have a whole new set of hoops to jump through to get them to go into the FTTC cabinet.

I think this was mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Openreach do not need access to the DSLAM cab to connect your FTTC service, the only access required is to the street cabinet {PCP}

Just a small point of information .

Both your phone line and your FTTC are connected inside the PCP (phone cabinet). The engineer doesn't even have access to the FTTC one.

The links are installed at the time the FTTC cabinet is built, with a patch panel installed in the PCP. The engineer just diverts the line to it and picks up the return of the combined signal. So exchange >> PCP >> FTTC (where the fibre feed is - possibly from a different exchange) >> PCP >> you.

What you send retraces that route with the phone and VDSL2 signals being split in the FTTC cabinet .

I typed a lot .

Fret not Bob, most unusual for me to beat anyone at all on the speed of my reply.

Sorry ... my mistake ... I did mean PCP but typed FTTC.
Thanks for setting me straight though