I was talking to Zen but I'm not saying that's what they said, just my understanding. I wasn't paying too much attention as I'd just been told I couldn't order fibre. I was in shock! But that was the message I got, order a line - ADSL even - and wait for fibre to become available.

Edited by Woolwich (Wed 21-Feb-18 17:55:53)

Having an active phone line makes no difference when ordering FTTC since they introduced SIM provisioning.
A port will be allocated to you at the time of ordering wether there is an active line or not.

It's actually a large ECI DSLAM inside that small cabinet.
But July seems a little bit pessimistic . Depends when they get round to standing the new cabinet. If it's soon then all things being equal it should be done before July

Edited by witchunt (Wed 21-Feb-18 20:27:40)

The email I received said they are waiting for a wayleave signature before work can commence.

What sort of work needs to go on after the stand the cabinet? Is it a few months worth?

It's the same as for the 1st cabinet. The one advantage possibly that There Is existing fibre tubing to the aggregation node already present nearby.
Will most likely need a new power supply connection. They have tried other options using a supply from existing cabinets but don't believe these are likely options at this time.
Copper ties may need additional civils work to provide duct space to the PCP. That could all takeca few months to get up and running, especially the mains supply.

Been checking every day and so far it hasn't moved from waiters list, damn!

I'd have thought somebody would have moved house by now!

Should be getting my FTTPoD quote back shortly too, if it's a sensible amount of money it may be considered!

Another update from Openreach..

Apparently the current date for completion of the cabinet upgrade is 1st week of April, so hopefully not too long to go!

I now have ADSL2 temporarily.....a whole 0.5Mb!

In the meantime I've been checking the BTW Checker multiple times per day and still no FTTC ports have become available.....

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

Cabinet P26 FTTC Available from 12th June 2012, being expanded by July 2018

That's only a date from codelook. Others have access to more detailed info. July sounds about right though.

Interested if you know when the information on expansion is added to codelook

I am looking at a cab for a house in buying and it's on waiting list. No info on expansion timeframes. Exchange NSKNC cab 28

Magenta Telecom SQL Database, Version 1.3
Creation Date: 9th March 2018
Source: Ofcom CodeList numbering database dated 7th March 2018
Source: BT Electronic Price List dated 9th March 2018
Source: BT Wholesale broadband datasets dated 30th November 2017

I think it's every 3 months they update the relevant BT Wholesale info.