Hey again!
Unfortunately not, I've sent numerous emails (at least a dozen, no word of a lie) to Openreach and I received no response - the only responses I've received are automated ones from their residential contact form. I'm probably on some sort of email blacklist by now.

It's going to be a while until all of the local BDUK projects are completed, which it seems Openreach are waiting on before they continue work on our commercial cabinet. However, the fact that our BDUK project are connecting lines to our cabinet to increase speeds does suggest that it at least will be enabled at some point (they're not going to completely abandon it), and possibly in a short period of time (although honestly, I doubt it).

I did notice that an ISP named "pine media" claims to cover the majority of S10 with wireless (I believe- their website doesn't explain things very well) broadband with speed packages up to 100mbps, but they're a small company and the packages are rather pricey.

I might give up with following this delay up and see if my local area would be interested in a community funded fibre cabinet, although I don't really see that happening either (only around 100 homes, and funding can be quite pricey).

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Fri 19-Aug-16 16:14:32)

Make sure you fill in Openreach's expression of interest form so they know there's a high demand for fibre on the cabinet - I've got a couple neighbours and other houses nearby to register. If possible, try and get a few neighbours to also do the same.

You could also try the expression of interest form for Virgin Media - it's very unlikely they'll ever expand to our area, and will definitely take them a couple years, but its nice to have a second option available in the area.

Edited by thebigdolphin1 (Fri 19-Aug-16 16:51:22)