So basically you're stuck on ADSL or hope that FTTP comes along? Madness!

Blimey, you'd think the majority of people would have a fixed line connection, now!

Or a port becomes available

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It means that you can join the 'Waiting List' for Openreach to upgrade the capacity in the cabinet or, if that is full, to install a new cabinet.

Gordon Bennett! You'd think this would be a solved problem in 2021. The cabinet is some distance away from what I understand, so if it's serving my new address it's probably serving an awful lot of people in a large radius.

More like a problem caused in 2021. Quite a lot of cabinets around the country c. 90,000 odd. Focus for Openreach now is rolling out fibre to the premises as fast as possible. They’re apparently not showing any inclination to divert resources onto mass scale FTTC upgrades.

A report from 2019 that came up on google stated that 95% of people had access to "superfast broadband" but only 45% had signed up. Roll on Covid and working from home and that 45% most likely increased rapidly. Prior to Covid putting in the equipment to support 100% of people when only 45% had signed up would have been a waste of money.

As far as FTTC specifically there are people who find ADSL adequate and therefore have not signed up for FTTC and then there are areas that have FTTP, Virgin, etc where people may choose those instead of FTTC. All of this means you provision based on prediction. They didn't predict a massive hike in home working (neither did anyone else). And the effect of Covid would have reduced the number of engineers available to go out and do cabinet upgrades further increasing the problem.

autumn you mention a new house (is this a new property for you or a new house period ) if its a new house period and its a recent development i would seriously be asking you developer who you bought your house from when they had a copper offer (free of charge (vdsl if avaialbe) or an FTTP{ funded offer (which they they decided not to fund) -and see what his answer was -- your situation is becoming increasingly common especially with what a call sub 20 plot (developments where there are less than 20 homes on it) these are getting to be a huge issue right across the country

Cab might have only recently (in last 8 - 10 months been filled -- i would not expect new FTTC cabs to be now installed (cards might get shifted ariound to increase capacity (ie from normal to High Density) but i understand that hard and challenging to do

Fastman you have replied to my post, but I think you ought to have replied to the OPs post above….

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I wonder why it's become full? There haven't been a lot of new houses built in the area as far as I'm aware - my new house is of 1970s vintage, and that's one of the newer properties in the vicinity. Did they not anticipate that everyone in an area would want broadband when they built out the network?

I think that answers clearly your first question / assertion - if the OP intends to challenge the ‘developers’ that built his house roughly 50 years ago - for something which hadn’t been invented until 30 years later…good luck with that 😎

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You're right - "waiting list" is what it says under "WBC FTTC Availability Date" and "SOGEA FTTC Availability Date".

What does it mean? Do I have to stick with ye olde ADSL broadband at my new address?

On the page that it said Waiting list", the line above the table will have your exchange and cabinet number. If you post those details (without your address) you may find someone can give more information about the cabinet.

In particular if it is scheduled to get extra capacity.

Re the waiting list itself, there is no way you can put yourself on it, and as far as I know these days only one provider (BT) puts potential customers on it. That's if they still do.

The only other way is to check at least twice a day on that site and get an order in within minutes to your chosen provider. Even then you may not be quick enough.

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The only other way is to check at least twice a day on that site and get an order in within minutes to your chosen provider. Even then you may not be quick enough.

Probably even more often ...

After being promised waitlist by Plusnet, and seeing slots come and go, they admitted they don't support it. So, for a family member, I have been checking about 5, 6 or more times a day. And sitting here, idle, short while back, I decided to do one last check even though I had done one less than 30 minutes previous. AVAILABLE! So, logged on, thought whether they needed 76-78 or could make do with 36-38 and relaised the price was identical. I grabbed it.
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SO, I suggest, bookmark the page and then wheneve you have a couople of minutes, maybe once an hour or so, run a check. It does seem to be a random time when slots appear - suggesting the site is updated in real time, whenever a service is guven up/surrendered.

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SO, I suggest, bookmark the page and then wheneve you have a couople of minutes, maybe once an hour or so, run a check. It does seem to be a random time when slots appear - suggesting the site is updated in real time, whenever a service is guven up/surrendered.

Your browser may support an add-on that checks a page at regular intervals and alerts you when the page is changed. I use "Update Scanner" on Firefox but there are others.