They may have personally paid for FTTPod.
It shows up as standard FTTP at the address after activation.
Nobody at the Scottish government you can talk to, and digital Scotland are pretty useless.

Persimmons is responsible for your property as it's brand new. Unless OpenReach decide is commercially worth putting as cabinet in then the developer is your best bet. I like the idea of sticking a huge sign in the garden saying "Don't buy a home here the broadband is useless and Persimmons won't do anything about it"
Contact the local press etc.

Persimmon definitely can help.

They can either part, or wholly fund the upgrading of he cabinet to FTTC.

You need to start a canpaign that will stop peope buying houses on the estate until it affects persimmon enough to make them do something about it.

In reply to a post by hippyharry:

The staff at Persimmon definitely can't help here

The staff at the sales site will gracefully decline any knowledge ... to people who have already parted with their money.

They will be more motivated to respond to those who haven't bought yet.

Your mission, should you ... blah blah ..., is to get all those potential new homeowners to quiz the sales staff before they even put a deposit down.

Signs in windows. In cars. On lawns - where they can be seen from visitors to showhomes or to the site. Local papers. etc

Get friends to go visit the showhomes & sales staff and ask ... to walk away uninterested because of the poor speed.

Persimmon will pay attention when sales slow down.

Not to dig up an old post, but this cabinet is now in Build Process as stated on the digital scotland where and when.

Help me please though folks, - does this look like the possibility of a fibre cabinet or something else? The writing on the pavement says S/L

Possible Fibre Cabinet Location?

Well the grey paint �looks� like an indicated position for a cabinet ....

The red paint would seem to be marking something else, sewer line maybe ?

My money is on there being a Huawei VDSL2 cabinet appearing one day, which date in the next year is the hard part.

Red paint would likely indicate power, possibly from the street light

We had indication that Persimmon put their hands into their pocket to fund this. Being told from Openreach that they have a contractual delivery date of June 2018 for FTTC.

I suppose it them looking at using the Street Lighting connection could work since it�s an unmetered connection they�d use for it.

Cabinet is then essentially getting build behind the footpath avoiding any adoption procedures for Persimmon and local authority.

Timeframe from this point then? 5 months or so? Anyone see anything on their databases that aren�t publicly available?

CodeLook now says this for Stepps Cabinet P23:

FTTC doing Design, live due by August 2019

Phase Privately Funded 22a

<no premises passed count>

Huawei

<no approx postcode>

Edit: that's publicly available at https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm. Enter locality as Stepps, then list all fibre cabinets. Limited to 20 free lookups per day apparently.

Edited by andrum99 (Fri 19-Oct-18 00:31:34)

Roadworks Scotland now has an update for it:

BT022-S000000022005 (2544289)
75 M SOUTH WEST FROM 2 HAINING WYND, MUIRHEAD, GLASGOW G69 9FG
HAINING WYND, MUIRHEAD
Openreach
03316678246
06/12/2018 - 14/12/2018
10 Working Day(s)

Looking positive now!