The USO only applies to the first line, so they could charge you true cost of supplying a second or third line.

So is there a chance that I may be able to get another line thats drawn from a cabinet???

I would rate chance as down in the 0.1% range, they will use any spare pairs first

What im trying to get at, is if there are no spare pairs, what would the process envolve for them...

I mean - would it be as big a case as say - digging up the road?

1. If you have one telephone line already, then BT is under no obligation to provide a second line
2. This second line while usually £125 install, they may contact you with a higher price
3. If the cabling is underground, and need to link you to another bundle of cable digging may be needed, i.e. not cheap

So yes very likely to be a big case, and very likely BT would say no.

I'm on a Market 3 exchange but have an EO line. It is a relatively new housing estate, i think about 10 years old. There are streets and cabinets external to the estate that have fibre to the cabinet but not us. Its dull that a new estate cannot get fibre yet old houses can.
I asked BT why it was on EO line being a new estate and was told that the developer at the time would have probably chosen the cheapest method and installed a 100 core bundle straight back to the exchange.

In reply to a post by chrish16:

I'm on a Market 3 exchange but have an EO line. It is a relatively new housing estate, i think about 10 years old.

Sounds as though we are in the same boat. My house is only 15 years old.

I've emailed my regional BT director

In reply to a post by chrish16:

I've emailed my regional BT director

Wanna message me his email - Ill fire off an email also!

My sources tell me that there will be no e0 FTTC service available in FTTC areas as it is not commercially viable to cut a new cabinet in. BDUK areas that Openreach win will see new cabinets cut in as BDUK are paying for it.

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