the only think that they can provide is FTTP they cannot provide FTTC if the cabinet has been unbundled

I believe you are saying that Openreach can only offer FTTP (assuming they go ahead with installing the infrastructure). I agree with that statement. Unbundled FTTC cabs must be quite rare.

Edited by Realalemadrid (Tue 12-May-20 14:41:55)

openreach cannot provide FTTC where a SLU (sub loop unbundled) cab is already present - it could only provide FTTP there if it chose to do so

curious about what company that would be as the only people doing that work would be openreach unless this is some else trying to do something else -- I ask because we had a company who said they were working for BT knock on our door yesterday as they were apparently doing measures on the line.

Openreach would not need to do any of the above - sounds very fishy and odd

any idea what company it was

In reply to a post by Realalemadrid:

I believe you are saying that Openreach can only offer FTTP (assuming they go ahead with installing the infrastructure). I agree with that statement. Unbundled FTTC cabs must be quite rare.

Glide seem to have quite a few, they are mapped here:
https://glidegroup.co.uk/fibre-leased-lines-voip/fttc

Sorry unfortunately not, i was at Work and it was the wife who spoke to them as she was trying to take 2 small kids on their daily exercise.

Agree, very odd i had assumed since Warwicknet (Glide) had now installed a cabinet we were stuck with them (they do offer FTTC & FTTP though so its not too bad, its just expensive)

I can only assume it was BT looking to install FTTP as i think they get alot of calls from our estate as the ADSL is pitiful here, and the BT tracker constantly shows that nothing is in the plan for future developments.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

A lot will depend on whether the two VDSL2 band plans can be made to work together, so technically possible but might be messy if no one co-operates.

I’m not sure why the poster’s question isn’t been answered in very simple terms.

There’s nothing to see here. Andrew you will be well aware that Warwicknet have been putting up their own fibre cabinets for donkeys years next to Openreach PCPs. This in no way stops Openreach putting their own ones there also and I’m sure they have.

Any talk of FTTP could be from Openreach, Warwicknet or someone else!

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-May-20 08:42:06)

My FTTC service in Gloucestershire is supplied by Glide in the same manner as the OP's. Glide use the Sub Loop Unbundling (SLU) option from Openreach to intercept the copper loop at the PCP or SCP to deliver FTTC. In our case there is a business estate adjacent to a residential estate and that has allowed Glide to achieve the economies of scale to make it economically feasible to deliver FTTC to a group of some 30 houses on the outskirts of the village. The village itself has FTTP from Gigaclear delivered under the Fastershire funding arrangement. Glide are currently investigating installing FTTP to our estate but that is proving harder to justify economically. Glide are not just a business broadband provider, they provide broadband to University residential blocks and large residential flat buildings.

What’s your point? I know all that.

Thank you Peter, some of us didn't know that and that's why I enjoy browsing forums like this.