CodeLook vs Openreach

Cabinet 20 at WSHAL is full, �waiting list� according to OR�s DSL checker.

Recently I asked OR via their enquiries web form when fibre would be available again and they said around the end of July.

Today I see that the CodeLook entry for this cabinet has been updated since I last looked. It says �FTTC Available from 24th December 2009, being expanded by March 2019�.

I know who I want to believe, should I?

Points of note: I don�t have a POTS line so am using the postcode checker to find my address. The post code is �second hand� and OR still list premises a few miles away as well as the �correct� houses on the road. CodeLook didn�t but now do recognise the postcode although they misidentify the actual street as it doesn�t yet appear on maps. But they report �Fibre Street Cabinet 1: Fibre Not Available� which I know not to be true as some people do have fibre from Cabinet 20.

Are you aware that codelook is just a publication of a periodic release from Openreach, so its a case of what date is the Codelook set as its possible Openreach may have shifted dates back and forward since that publication.

Postcodes that have 'moved' are always problematic as so much depends on whose location information a site is using. Latest we have was ONS set released mid February.

If you want to look without moving confusion then G53 7DY is long time postcode on that cabinet

Thanks, no, I didn�t know where CodeLook get their info from.

I�ve asked OR again so no doubt they�ll confirm the expansion date has moved to 2019. Coincidently, I see cabinet 84 has appeared on CodeLook. It�s a new cabinet without fibre but showing as being upgraded, also by March 2019. (The residents have persuaded the developer to pay for the upgrade.)

CodeLook say they aren�t using the Post Office database to get the street names but instead relying on the map. I guess because the new streets aren�t on maps (other than OpenStreetMap) yet it was causing my confusion.

So looks like I�ll need a 12 month EE data contract...

To be pedantic I believe BTWholesale, rather than Openreach are the source of Codelook info.

Which is what is stated on the main page. For example it states that for the current data:

Magenta Telecom SQL Database, Version 1.3
Creation Date: 4th April 2018
Source: Ofcom CodeList numbering database dated 4th April 2018
Source: BT Electronic Price List dated 27th March 2018
Source: BT Wholesale broadband datasets dated 22nd March 2018

I experienced something similar.

My cabinet shows as Waiting List, Codelook showed 'Expanded by July 2018'.

Emailing Openreach, they initially replied with April 2018. Waited a few weeks and asked again and now they say October 2018.

Codelook has now updated to August 2018.

Luckily though I think I have nabbed a free port in my cabinet when it became available for a few hours (with the help of a little script), activation date is this Friday, so I might have been extremely lucky. I hope so as my ADSL is 0.5Mb!

Edited by deleted (Mon 09-Apr-18 10:26:03)