In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Anyway, AIUI the "Available" never went away on the BTW checker. But I haven't seen any mention of orders being taken again by Openreach.

You probably won't see FTTPod come back until G.FAST is fully available and people on that which want the fibre installed the last little bit from the pit/chamber by pole into the building, that is when you will probably be able to buy that option.

But I maybe wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.

Paul

Changes on fibre rollout as part of g.fast and a fod2 product after trials

Edited by MrSaffron (Mon 18-May-15 09:25:45)

It's nothing to do with whether a line is LLU or not.

Instead of having to send an engineer to the cabinet to physically remove the jumpers when someone cancels FTTC or moves house, Openreach are now disabling the FTTC port remotely.

This means that if the user ever wants to take a new FTTC service in the future or someone else takes over the line, then the service can be reactivated without an engineer visit.

Of course this is provided that there are spare ports at the fibre cab. If the fibre cabinet reaches capacity, such lines are liable to have their jumpers disconnected.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I know it's difficult, but "That's exactly what it means, left in jumpers in the cabinet from when the line had previously been FTTC" is what has caused confusion.

That says the message "jumpers are in place" occurs only after FTTC has been removed.

My change to that says it occurs when FTTC is present.

What I think you are now saying is that my version is always true, and your version also true until the jumpers are removed to allow ADSLx. A line that has never had FTTC won't have jumpers in place.

Yeah you're right! A line that has never had ADSL will not have the left in jumpers message.

When someone cancels FTTC OR leave the jumpers in place, the thinking is that the next service on the line is likely to be FTTC again, so no one would need to go to the cabinet and it can all be done remotely. If however the next order after the FTTC cancellation is ADSL then a visit to the cabinet is required to remove those jumpers.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Changes on fibre rollout as part of g.fast and a fid2 product after trials

Ok, I am aware of G.Fast but what's FID2?
Is it for degrade/error detection etc ?

Paul

In reply to a post by Icaras:

Yeah you're right! A line that has never had ADSL FTTC(?) will not have the left in jumpers message.

Never had FTTC and I have the jumper message.

Across has it right .... and I agree with his 'why the public need to know this' comment as well.

A touchscreen typo FoD2

In reply to a post by Banger:

Never had FTTC and I have the jumper message.

That they are in place, or that they are not? What exactly does it say?

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 18-May-15 13:09:52)