Cabinet P17 FTTC doing Field Survey, live due by September 2017 Phase BDUK Wales 17b Huawei

Codelook naturally a bit behind given the cab has now been stood

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Cabinet P17 FTTC doing Field Survey, live due by September 2017 Phase BDUK Wales 17b Huawei

Thanks again. Any ideas on how I can get my line transferred to CAB 17 as EE had no interest or suggestions when I called them this afternoon (their projects department)?

No point until it is live, if they put you through the cabinet before its live it means no broadband

They don't really take requests to move you cabinets anyway. There's hundreds of thousands of lines that run right past the local cabinet to further away cabinets. My line does just that. It runs through the same duct as my neighbours lines which go to the nearest cabinet, but my line keeps going to the next again cabinet. It's not possible to get this changed. Cabinets tend to have fixed boundaries. All lines from a DP also need to go to the same cabinet.

If this cabinet is an infill cabinet then you're likely to be moved to it. If it's not but they have local network rearrangements planned then again you may be moved to it. However if your line isn't planned to be routed through this new cabinet then there's no way to ask OpenReach to move you to it. Your only real option at the moment is to wait and see.

All lines from a DP also need to go to the same cabinet.

Not entirely true, I know of streets where there are two DP blocks on the JUP's, one will be (for example) DP103 and the other DP 103A, they feed to different cabs...... this is rare, but not unknown.

So you can shift the line on to a shorter D side in response to a fault or some such, BUT if there's FTTC involved the powers that be cannot just make a port live at the new cab just like that .........

Back in the day redundancy was built into the network, there was often options .... Not so in these bean counter driven days.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

They don't really take requests to move you cabinets anyway. There's hundreds of thousands of lines that run right past the local cabinet to further away cabinets. My line does just that. It runs through the same duct as my neighbours lines which go to the nearest cabinet, but my line keeps going to the next again cabinet. It's not possible to get this changed. Cabinets tend to have fixed boundaries. All lines from a DP also need to go to the same cabinet.

If this cabinet is an infill cabinet then you're likely to be moved to it. If it's not but they have local network rearrangements planned then again you may be moved to it. However if your line isn't planned to be routed through this new cabinet then there's no way to ask OpenReach to move you to it. Your only real option at the moment is to wait and see.

Thanks

Just a thought.....could I ask BT for a second business phone line with a new number be installed and request it's only connected to this new CAB 17? If they can do this could I then ask for my existing phone line to be disconnected at a later date?

You can't specify what cab you're commnected to.

No nee connections will be provision from the nee cab until the live to live is done anyway.