hhhmmm ian is not openreach be very surprised if that was the case and if something was shared around a direction of travel iit would not have been public information for broadcasting in a public form

Gfast is in trial that trial will get bigger and then will be launched at openreach discretion where it will make the most return on its investment

In reply to a post by Fastman2:

Gfast is in trial that trial will get bigger and then will be launched at openreach discretion where it will make the most return on its investment

I would expect nothing else but apparently a fairly small exchange, a bit over half of whose cabinets were enabled in the second half of the commercial FTTC rollout, is getting ubiquitous G.fast coverage by 2018.

I'm pretty dubious too if I'm honest. We'll see.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Got email from openreach ian binks was confirmed that my exchange cuckoo oak will be bringing g.fast to 27 cabinets by 2018.

Isn't there something unique about Cuckoo Oak though? That name rings a bell and I can't put my finger on why. Is that the exchange that they moved, onto a new housing estate? Or am I getting it confused with somewhere else?

Good result. I think my cabinet is staying as V.Slow for a while.

Another email from openreach, this time not from Ian. Different person has confirmed that no one's at openreach headquarters wouldn't know of which exchange or caninets for g.fast roll out next year. So, he say for Cuckoo Oak as a smaller exchange might not getting g.fast but probably very few cabinets will benefits from it, more likely my cabinet wouldn't get it. He say have to wait next summer for BT to confirmed phase 1 roll out lists on the ispreview or thinkbroadband or on the openreach press release.

Is it likely BTO have already decided which exchanges and cabinets would get g.fast when they were adding fibre backhaul capacity for FTTC? I would think they do not want to go through the duct clearing again if they can help it, and so have already laid enough fibre for the backhaul and between the exchange and cabinets for those where they knew they would deploy g.fast?

From comments here it seems small 250 property exchanges are unlikely to ever get g.fast. Agreed?

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Got email from openreach ian binks was confirmed that my exchange cuckoo oak will be bringing g.fast to 27 cabinets by 2018.

Ian Binks doesn't work for Openreach. he is Regional Partnership Director West Midlands, BT Regions.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Got email from openreach ian binks was confirmed that my exchange cuckoo oak will be bringing g.fast to 27 cabinets by 2018.

So Ian is not aware of any plans for roll out to Cuckoo Oak and hasn't told anyone about them.

I'm not going to comment on what I think of you but suffice to say it's not complimentary.

EDIT: For anyone curious Openreach aren't going to tell you about the G.fast rollout in your area so don't waste your time or their asking.

Edited by deleted (Tue 01-Nov-16 18:33:38)

Depends a lot on what you mean by 'ever'

Current roll-out plan is to 10 million premises, and there are around 29 million in the UK and growing, and a further 2 million FTTP, so how lucky do you feel?