I like the sound of these guys! These sound like friendly Openreach engineers, good to hear.

I get the impression they're used to dealing with frustrated yet enthusiastic would be customers

Good News! The Yellow tape is on the cabinet

Now, all we have to do is wait a few weeks for it to come up as activated

In reply to a post by Lambert:

Good News! The Yellow tape is on the cabinet

Now, all we have to do is wait a few weeks for it to come up as activated

Now what will we have to moan about???

Let's start a new thread to see how long it will be until we get FTTH...

woot

In reply to a post by Irby:

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Haha! That guy is great, probably one of the Liverpool engineers I'd guess. So it sounds like all the last remaining blockages have been cleared and it's all sorted. Wait for the silver lock to go on next.

I'm curious about the silver lock thing and I know this is what happens. But why do they connect it all up and leave it apparently unprotected only to return some time later to put a lock on?

I imagine it's already locked to a degree, is the silver lock just better?

It's a higher security lock to prevent tampering with live equipment, as it should not be powered up until the cabinet is commissioned and then the lock is fitted

Exactly that. At the moment any Openreach engineer could open it. After the lock goes on only the people with that key can, and the key will be restricted to those who need it.

I see, makes sense!