The remaining 3 cabinets seem to still be part of the Commercial FTTC Project as far as I can see.
I have the following that I have extracted from the BT Openreach Where and when page:

Cabinet 2 - Stage 6 of 8 (8 being live)
'-> Could be 4 to 6 Months (estimated date) if nothing goes wrong.

Cabinet 3 - Stage 6 of 8 (8 being live)
'-> Could be 4 to 6 Months (estimated date) if nothing goes wrong.

Cabinet 8 - Stage 1 of 8 (8 being live)
'-> Might not of started work on it yet, so no way to estimate a date.

Stage 6 seems to be down as connecting up the last time I checked, BTOR has removed the dueby date from this hidden info, so I don't really know now.
So if all goes to plan and no issues and the engineers are available cabinets 2 and 3 should be done in 4 to 6 months (rough estimate) and cabinet 8 being still at stage 1 seems that it could be another 12 to 18 Months (also a rough estimate)

Paul

Big surprise on the checker today, Cabinet 8 has gone from "will be enabled sometime between April 2016 and March 2017" to being enabled. Congratulations.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Ad...

Meanwhile, cabinet 2 and 3, no change

In reply to a post by Irby:

Big surprise on the checker today, Cabinet 8 has gone from "will be enabled sometime between April 2016 and March 2017" to being enabled. Congratulations.

http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Ad...

Are we sure this isn't a mistake? I cannot order fibre via Plusnet or Sky as it is showing as unavailable although the BT checker says it is ok.

If I use the website that Plusnet say they use to check it isn't showing as available.

Https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/Adele/adslchecker.welcome


Meanwhile, cabinet 2 and 3, no change

I was just going by what the checker said, it could be a mistake (it probably is since you're unable to order - who knows with this [censored] shower).

Either that or BT is holding back while they sign up all their customers. I do pass the cabinet everyday and haven't seen any sign of work going on there over the last few months. Strange that one website says it is available and another one that the providers use say it isn't.

Still showing as available on the checker website on here but not on the other one that Plusnet and the other suppliers use. It is now not available to order via BT either so it does look like a cockup by BT.

Well at least it was a bit exciting for a while.

In reply to a post by Smithy99:

Either that or BT is holding back while they sign up all their customers. I do pass the cabinet everyday and haven't seen any sign of work going on there over the last few months. Strange that one website says it is available and another one that the providers use say it isn't.

Nope that doesn't and can't happen. The Openreach system is built so that if one provider can order then they all can. When these thing happen where the cabinet goes live briefly then gets pulled from the checker it's usually a good sign I find.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

In reply to a post by Smithy99:

Either that or BT is holding back while they sign up all their customers. I do pass the cabinet everyday and haven't seen any sign of work going on there over the last few months. Strange that one website says it is available and another one that the providers use say it isn't.

Nope that doesn't and can't happen. The Openreach system is built so that if one provider can order then they all can. When these thing happen where the cabinet goes live briefly then gets pulled from the checker it's usually a good sign I find.

The problem here is that one of their websites says it is available and another one says it isn't, there must be something wrong somewhere.

Yes but you said that Openreach are allowing BT first access to the cabinet. That's not how the system works. The systems in Openreach are built from scratch so that absolutely cannot happen. So just rule that out completely.

I think the Openreach system did make the cabinet live briefly. BT's site picked this up and it went live on their site. Maybe Plusnet, Sky etc are using scripts that scrape the Openreach database less regularly? But that's down to them.

Edited by deleted (Sat 05-Mar-16 16:39:04)

It was a bit of a tounge in cheek comment to be fair but it is good to know that this cannot happen.

This is the site I was directed to by Plusnet who said all the suppliers use to check availability
https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.Telep...

This shows its not available.

This is the one that shows it is available
http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/pls/adsl/ADSLChecker.Ad...

Not sure why they need two sites or why they would show different results for the same cabinet.