Roadworks.org just posted this right next to the exchange

https://roadworks.org/?106539944

NEW DSLAM STREET CABINET & PCP CABINET & POWER INSTALLATION. Excavate to lay BT ducts, Lay concrete plinth, Stand new cab. Excavate to expose low voltage cable for Power Connection and lay duct. POWER engineer to carry out inspection prior to jointing. POWER jointing team to insert cable and execute jointing works. Reinstate, Check and clear site

Am I right in thinking you need both a DSLAM and PCP cabinet to convert an EO line to Fibre? Looks promising?

VDSL2 yes, not FTTP.

Does not always need two cabinets, a combined VDSL2 cabinet and PCP is available as an option.

FTTC needs either a PCP cabinet and associated VDSL cabinet or an AIO (All-in-One) cabinet. AIOs tend to be used for the small EO bundles as they are limited to a maximum of 128 lines. FTTP requires neither.

In reply to a post by dotmannn:

Roadworks.org just posted this right next to the exchange

https://roadworks.org/?106539944

NEW DSLAM STREET CABINET & PCP CABINET & POWER INSTALLATION. Excavate to lay BT ducts, Lay concrete plinth, Stand new cab. Excavate to expose low voltage cable for Power Connection and lay duct. POWER engineer to carry out inspection prior to jointing. POWER jointing team to insert cable and execute jointing works. Reinstate, Check and clear site

Am I right in thinking you need both a DSLAM and PCP cabinet to convert an EO line to Fibre? Looks promising?

Many thanks for this. If this is indeed the cabinet they'll be installing it looks like it will be FTTC. There is still quite a bit of distance from Hanbury Street to Commercial Street where I live. That means it's 0.4 miles. Which= 643.738 meters. I hope that will not be a problem for attaining decent speeds.

Something else I see 20 Aug - 24 Aug. That is the approximate time of works being started, right? How long will it take for a cabinet installation project like this to complete?

Also in the Fibre Journey it does not mention Design or Build box as the latest progress. It only says In Scope. So I am not too sure if this cabinet would apply for FTTC in Bishopsgate EO Line.

Too early to tell which premises will benefit from the cabinet mentioned, only once checkers start to show a new cabinet number will those affected be able to tell.

As for timescale, could be weeks or months or a year or more, depends on whether any snags crop up, worst case - a cabinet appears and subsequent objections get it removed

Also in the Fibre Journey it does not mention Design or Build box as the latest progress. It only says In Scope. So I am not too sure if this cabinet would apply for FTTC in Bishopsgate EO Line.

A brand new PCP and Fibre DSLAM.
It will 110% be for EO lines, it just might not be for your EO line.
Either that or the checker just doesn't reflect this yet.

I would guess this cabinet 19 will encompass most properties in a block around Hanbury St, Brick Lane, Fournier St and Commercial Road.

That's right. I also think this cabinet is more aimed at covering Hanbury St, Brick Lane, Fournier St. But I don't think it will be Commercial Road.

I am in Commercial Street and that is closer to the cabinet compared to Commercial Road. And that still further away from the cabinet. 0.4 miles away from my property thus I would not be happy with this kind of FTTC as speeds and reliability will not be good enough.

I've been searching other threads in this forum from people living 0.3 miles from their cabinets and their best results would be 30Mbps.

Now I don't think I would be entirely pleased to wait this long for FTTC just to get 30Mbps from the current 12-15 Mbps.

Bishopsgate exchange is a very big area to cover. If FTTP does not expand the area enough then we will need quite a few extra cabinets to be built to complete 100% coverage of Bishopsgate with FTTC. At the end of the day how worth economically this is going to be in ratio for the quality of service it will deliver, remains to be seen.

From Hanbury St to Commercial Rd is a distance of 1.2 miles. Well that is 1931 meters long. This is absolutely not going to be covering Commercial Road. Because as we can see at 1500m FTTC would deliver 15 Mbps Download and 4 Mbps Upload 98% https://www.thinkbroadband.com/guides/fibre-fttc-ftt...

This will deliver worse speeds from there than with ADSL 100% Copper. Either I'm going to have to wait for a cabinet to come near Commercial Street or wait for FTTP. It appears that in both case scenarios we will have to wait for quite a long while before it does get supported. I'm going to still try and chase my authority for Hyperoptic. Even that feels more realistic than waiting on the incompetent BT Openreach to do something about it..

So with a line length of 1.1km you'd be shocked to hear of people getting 29 Mbps sync speeds I guess

Sorry. Commercial St not Commercial road