In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

If you goto https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/index.php?area... you will see our stats for Glasgow City and you fall into the gap between the two lines you can see when you click the history button i.e. 0.9% of Glasgow passed by a VDSL2 or cable service but not able to get superfast speeds.

The broadband provider should have given you a speed estimate at the time of signing up and before you committed to upgrading.

The UK as a whole has 92.8% able to get something like VDSL2/cable/FTTH but the figure for those superfast is lower at 88.6% to 89.3% depending on whether you call superfast something over 24 Mbps or over 30 Mbps

I've just checked a postcode... your average speed test is vaguely right in that it suggests under 2 meg. However, you think that there's a chance of:

ultrafast - there isn't
superfast fibre - there isn't
fibre - there isn't

If your data is including those sorts of things then it is miles off reality - that's just one postcode of many.

In reply to a post by helpoort:

So the chickens are AT LAST coming home to roost.
BT must hate this latest report, published yesterday.
In a statement that will surprise few, it said despite Openreach's obligation to treat everyone fairly "the evidence from Ofcom�s review shows Openreach still has an incentive to make decisions in the interests of BT, rather than BT�s competitors, which can lead to competition problemsWill be interested in comments from the Monopolist supporters.

And do TT and Sky treat everyone fairly? BT is a business just like Sky and TT etc... Sky, TT etc.. will make decisions which are in their interests rather than those of their competitors.

So tell me the postcodes I have wrong and will happily exclude them - bad figures = more coverage for the work

Given the population of Exeter unless you give us a location in terms of postcode then its impossible to sift the daft by hand

On the FTTP again tell us which chunks are not complete and where people cannot order and more than happy to remove, and then explain why the charts are on a downward trend.

Okay have found a couple of partially built FTTP areas, and a quick look at recent Virgin Media tests suggests a spread consistent with high Virgin coverage, so to delve into things still need postcode examples of where I am wrong.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Given the population of Exeter unless you give us a location in terms of postcode then its impossible to sift the daft by hand

On the FTTP again tell us which chunks are not complete and where people cannot order and more than happy to remove, and then explain why the charts are on a downward trend.

Whole parts of Heavitree... for one. EX1 and EX4 postcode areas - I'll have to ask for some examples. There are also areas just off the city Centre which were originally getting FTTP, and some systems say it's there, but it is absolutely not - there is no FTTP in the ducting, as I've been there, seen it with Openreach.

All I'd say is that the data on Exeter is absolutely incorrect, my business is based here, and we have to try and provision people every day.

EX1 and EX4 is a postcode area, but I need specific postcodes to work with, otherwise I am spending the afternoon looking through many postcodes availability data and speed tests and might be looking in the totally wrong areas.

Another way is to just say the exchange and cabinet number to look at, which is a small enough area to work on one at a time.

A quick review of the Virgin Media data shows the sort of speed test density I'd expect for the coverage levels, of course there will be some postcodes marked incorrectly, but certainly not to the point where I'd say 'absolutely incorrect' and already from a casual sweep I've seen issues with cabs 5, 8 and 83 and found a mass of EO FTTC upgrades in Pin Hope.

Yes I realise they're postcode areas and not specific postcodes

So what level of virgin media coverage do you think is sensible to state for Exeter?

Will then have an idea of how much work, i.e. whether to clear the tables for the next week and concentrate on that single town.

Okay FTTP is a pain but do-able, the verification of Virgin Media is a lot slower, so am in need of the postcodes to figure them out.

Have done some random hunting and result looks to be Virgin Media coverage is increasing.