In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by Swac3:

Lol, that sites checker for my address says they're upgrading my area to FTTC soon, not only isn't that going happen it would be an Insane waste of money putting an FTTC cab close to me.

You may be surprised.

I know someone who lives in an isolated rural cluster of less than a dozen buildings (mostly farmhouses), and last year an FTTC cabinet sprang up right outside their house. They've gone from 4Mbps ADSL to full 80/20.

The fact that the person living in the mansion opposite is extremely wealthy may or may not have been a factor.

But this demonstrates it certainly *is* possible for a cabinet to arrive serving a small number of buildings. It doesn't seem to make much sense to me - an underground fibre splitter would cost less to buy and takes no power - but there you go. Maybe OpenReach are contracted to buy a certain number of cabinets or FTTC line cards per year?