In reply to a post by gerarda:

However the presence of a cabinet shell would be enough to deter any altnet from investing in an upgraded service in competition with that cabinet and so not declare any plans to do so.

BT installed fibre and a node in the village three years ago and then did not activate it, so this may be a repetition.

What makes your village so special that BT would go to all this effort over everywhere else in the country? Surely it'd be easier for them, if fibre that's doing nothing and an empty cabinet shell are there as you claim to have just deployed?

I can't see the sense in spending money to deter competition, competition that they are apparently so scared of that they are building fibre spines and putting empty cabinets in place, when they could've spent an almost identical amount to make some back.

There also appears to be different rules for what constitutes a "credible plan" for OMR purposes. For BT a vague assertion that it is in their commercial rollout seems to have sufficed, regardless of the technical challenges involved. Whereas altnets are required to provide business plans, proof of funding, detailed deployment plans etc

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by gerarda:

However the presence of a cabinet shell would be enough to deter any altnet from investing in an upgraded service in competition with that cabinet and so not declare any plans to do so.

BT installed fibre and a node in the village three years ago and then did not activate it, so this may be a repetition.

What makes your village so special that BT would go to all this effort over everywhere else in the country? Surely it'd be easier for them, if fibre that's doing nothing and an empty cabinet shell are there as you claim to have just deployed?

I can't see the sense in spending money to deter competition, competition that they are apparently so scared of that they are building fibre spines and putting empty cabinets in place, when they could've spent an almost identical amount to make some back.

Why spend all that effort laying fibre and a node and then not activate it? Only BT can answer that.

In reply to a post by gerarda:

Why spend all that effort laying fibre and a node and then not activate it? Only BT can answer that.

'Activate' it?

How do you know there's nothing connected to it? They feed more than just GEA FTTC/P.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by gerarda:

Why spend all that effort laying fibre and a node and then not activate it? Only BT can answer that.

'Activate' it?

How do you know there's nothing connected to it? They feed more than just GEA FTTC/P.

I know because the node is in a manhole in front of our house.

In reply to a post by gerarda:

I know because the node is in a manhole in front of our house.

I see. So the built it, didn't splice anything, and that was that?

Have you considered reporting this anti-competitive behaviour to the DCMS or your local authority?

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by gerarda:

I know because the node is in a manhole in front of our house.

I see. So the built it, didn't splice anything, and that was that?

Have you considered reporting this anti-competitive behaviour to the DCMS or your local authority?

An engineer Just spent a day in 2013 wiring up the node to the incoming fibre and that was that.

The local authority do know about this but I cannot see what legal or contractual grounds they have to force BT to activate equipment.

In reply to a post by MCM:

Mouselike is only good for postcodes that are only used by a single cabinet, for post codes that are covered by more than one cabinet will only return a single result, like our postcode is covered by 2 cabinets and that site only shows the result for the other cabinet and not ours.

The page has been updated to work with the latest BT API so the results might now be more accurate (depends what BT returns for your address).

In reply to a post by drsox:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

Mouselike is only good for postcodes that are only used by a single cabinet, for post codes that are covered by more than one cabinet will only return a single result, like our postcode is covered by 2 cabinets and that site only shows the result for the other cabinet and not ours.

The page has been updated to work with the latest BT API so the results might now be more accurate (depends what BT returns for your address).

Mouselike seems to be hooking into the API that is on the Where and when page like for example: api.superfastmaps.co.uk my own app does the same.

But yes it now seems to be displaying the correct information.

Paul

A strange entry has now appeared. Cabinet P47 is described as being connected , live due by September 2016 but still has no postcode.