Here in Bath,one of the new extended trial area, there was a lot of activity with engineers from OR & BNE last Friday & Saturday working on the G Fast pods,which were installed a few weeks earlier.

If all g.fast already installed in every pcp cabinets then surely Openreach should start this service pass onto BTWholesale to pass onto ISP's to start their G.Fast products.

I do fear it will not gonna to happen this year more likely. Openreach probably wait until all been completed g.fast pod in all pcp cabinets in UK then flick the switch on just like ADSL (up to 8Mbps)

But maybe I am wrong. Who knows?

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If all g.fast already installed in every pcp cabinets then surely Openreach should start this service pass onto BTWholesale to pass onto ISP's to start their G.Fast products.

I do fear it will not gonna to happen this year more likely. Openreach probably wait until all been completed g.fast pod in all pcp cabinets in UK then flick the switch on just like ADSL (up to 8Mbps)

But maybe I am wrong. Who knows?

Overthinking things can often lead to sleepless nights, just don't worry about it.

On a sidenote. Just as well they didn't wait until all cabinets were upgraded to FTTC before releasing it, otherwise we would still be waiting for FTTC to be released. HAHAHA

Wouldn�t make sense to have a lot of profit generating kits sat around for a very long time not making any money.

I suspect they�re waiting till they�re at a milestone (such as, available to 1m properties) before the switch on, to use it as a marketing ploy. That, or they�re simply not yet happy/ready for a large scale switch on.

G.Fast won�t be added to all PCP�s, probably only around 1/3 by 2025 to hit the 10m mark.

not seen any myself, the areas I have moved around is mostly inner city Leicester tho.

I have not seen any pods go out here yet, But I did see a PCP extension thinking it was a pod but there is a new build of houses near by in Pennyford.

I was in York the other weekend and saw G.Fast pod's there, first one's I've seen in the flesh so to speak - none in the Thanet area.

Yeah, I've seen a few PCP extension pods around here, but no G.fast pods. I think, because I live in a BDUK area, Openreach are focussing more on vectoring rather than G.fast, atm.

Edited by deleted (Wed 04-Oct-17 09:50:58)

Won't see gfast on BDUK cabinets for some time I would guess.

Yeah, thought so. Ah well, I'm content with my connection! I'm very lucky to have it, some people can still barely connect!