Osborne Road, not too far from the telephone exchange.

If you keep an eye on Roadworks.org and set the date (top right) to 12 months you'll be able to see when VM are planning on doing you're road once they've applied for a works permit and its been accepted.

Heads up that it's FINALLY gone live in my area (Westbrook/Garlinge) the other day, up to 200mbps (for now I suppose) but no telephony which is fine by me! Ordering today so exciting times, will probably keep my VDSL line in situ to see how it goes though. They installed the large grey cab about 5 weeks ago, and I saw loads of fibre blowing about 3 weeks ago.

That's very quick after installation. A lot faster than if BT were doing it! I'm in Westbrook and they haven't started to cable our street yet, although Virgin Media roadworks seem to be all over the rest of Thanet. It's useful to know how quickly it can go live.

Thanks for the update, that's a lot quicker than I expected as I heard they had power supply issues at the hub site. At least they got it sorted out quickly, I'm sure BT wouldn't have been so quick.

Wonder why it's only up to 200mbps, unless they want make sure everything goes OK first, although that's ok for me as long as I have a good upload speed - currently have 47/6.

Keep us up to date on how you're order and installation goes, it'll be useful to know timescales.

I'm planning the same, no phone line and keep VDSL for a while.

I think those problems are still going on - I go past that hub site on the train every day on my commute, nothing had changed to it since they fitted all of the exterior air conditioning pipes etc (I remember when it was just a blank box!) and they had a pile driver like machine in there the other day so they must be working on fixing that now if all of the cable is sorted, they must have been using the same ducts and power supply that Eastern Group Telecoms (which became NTL) has originally perhaps? The earliest initial install date was for the 7th so they'd have to get it sorted by then I suppose.

Yeah I reckon they probably want to check they can walk before they can run, i'm only going for the 100mbps initially anyway on a 30 day rolling to see how it goes - looking forward to being one of the first customers!

Will definitely post updates/images once we're all set up - the ducting coming out of the toby box is far too small for shotgun cable though so it's 1000% FTTP - finally in Thanet we're actually getting some decent speeds!

Considering all the roadworks started in May (no idea when they started working at the main hub site), it's a gradual switch on for each of the complete sectors that they have cabled.