hardly a revelation, the £2.5bn only goes so far, so to try and use this to server as many premises as possible makes sense. Rather than concentrate on the more expensive to serve premises.

BDUK funds will be spent the same way, i.e. the last few final % that are hardest to reach will get something more like 2 Meg to 10 Meg

That doesn't really make sense as they cut new cabinets in for FTTC.

If you look at the numbers of lines that would be served by each cabinet it may make more sense, plus extra cost of adding a PCP cabinet too, and trying to keep phone services running smoothly while doing this

No, they overlay an existing cabinet with a FTTC tail. All dead work, no live circuits. I could do this with my business partner in a day. And I would be 8 hours over the planner's estimate.

Cutting in a cabinet on an e0 cable, 500 pairs in and out, all live circuits would take us a week to 2 weeks. Could be quicker, could be longer depending on traffic noticing.

A big late 80s e0 cable may need 3 cabinets cutting in.

It ain't gonna be viable, hence my sources tell me that it won't be happening outside BDUK areas for the moment.

Edited by deleted (Thu 12-Apr-12 21:19:40)

Ah, that does.

BDUK areas will undoubtedly have small exchanges with e0 and e1, e2 etc. pillars fed by small 1 or 2 hundred pair cables.

But this is a different jointing challenge to large towns with late eighties e0 cables that have much larger pair counts when the idea was no cabs and pressurise as far as possible.