Thanks both, that�s very useful

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In reply to a post by djpalmer93:

It�s cabinet 29 on THORPE exchange.

There is some FTTP about a mile up the road on a new housing development.

I just checked your area with post code: NR13 5BW served by cabinet 29 and it say on openreach checker:

Fibre to the Premises (FTTP)

Technology that supports speeds up to 1Gbps

We don�t have plans to upgrade your area yet. Tell us you�re interested and we�ll update you when things change.

Just to mention neither the Fibre First microsite or that checker are reliable. OR are working on the Morley, Leeds exchange despite it being listed on neither.

Hi

Ah I see, well that's certainly definite then, no G.Fast for you or anyone else on that cabinet.

They've recently changed the minimum speed they will consider G.Fast to be worthwhile upgrading to, I don't know the geography of where you are or the surrounding area, but perhaps so few people are going to benefit due to line length/line quality they've just recovered the asset and moved it elsewhere.

Unfortunately in most cases, we will never know why Openreach do certain things. Maybe FTTP is on its way imminently to your area, maybe not.

Regards

Phil

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They have considerably scaled back their G.Fast plans

Looking at the November 2018 announcement of 81 locations to be built "over the next 9 months", very few seem to have any live service. It's a stark contrast to the 59 locations on the June 2018 list.

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In reply to a post by j0hn83:

They have considerably scaled back their G.Fast plans

Looking at the November 2018 announcement of 81 locations to be built "over the next 9 months", very few seem to have any live service. It's a stark contrast to the 59 locations on the June 2018 list.

Whereas my exchange was never on any list I've seen but has just gone live. I'm the first sub on my cabinet

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Should have been good enough. Maybe the other suggestion, that FTTP may come instead, is a possibility.

Don't be so sure. I get a full 80/20 out of my FTTC connection. always have. The attainable is somewhat higher. Finally after 10 months G.fast went live on the cabinet. I cannot get it however...

I would say there's a very high chance of Norwich being in OR's FTTP plans as it has nearly total coverage by Virgin Media, and given that they have just upped the ante by announcing 1Gps for all customers, OR will be keen to not get left behind. I'm moving to NR7 very shortly, and the best speed OR can offer me is 10 to 18Mps on FTTC, which is extremely poor for a city urban area these days.

What speed do you currently get in Great Yarmouth , where VM couldn�t be persuaded to dig a few more feet to provide you service ?

In reply to a post by fatandpale:

I would say there's a very high chance of Norwich being in OR's FTTP plans as it has nearly total coverage by Virgin Media, and given that they have just upped the ante by announcing 1Gps for all customers, OR will be keen to not get left behind. I'm moving to NR7 very shortly, and the best speed OR can offer me is 10 to 18Mps on FTTC, which is extremely poor for a city urban area these days.

It's make no different as my area is full of virgin media 100% coverage since telewest NTL cable. But, Openreach still rolling out more G.fast pods in Telford but it appear it stopped doing it now for some reason. Cabinet 1, 6 & 7 are supposed to fitted G.fast pods but they never bother to installed it. Maybe they start to plan FTTP next.

I don't know if OR will removed G.fast on my cabinet 8 if no ones still not ordering it because the fibre cabinet is sitting next to virgin media cabinet there.

If, they did removed it off for some reason, then more likely it will be FTTP cos of Virgin Media 1Gbps soon.

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What speed do you currently get in Great Yarmouth , where VM couldn�t be persuaded to dig a few more feet to provide you service ?

64/20