FTTC or FTTP?

We had a street accident last Saturday when a vehicle destroyed a BT street cabinet, cutting broadband access for about 230 houses. What I don't know is if this means these people are still on the old BT Infinity fibre-to-the-cabinet system or the newer FTTP system. Is Openreach feeding FTTP through those street cabinets? We have Openreach, Virgin and Community Fibre in our avenue now.

100% it means those afflicted are on an FTTC service.

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We had a street accident last Saturday when a vehicle destroyed a BT street cabinet, cutting broadband access for about 230 houses. What I don't know is if this means these people are still on the old BT Infinity fibre-to-the-cabinet system or the newer FTTP system. Is Openreach feeding FTTP through those street cabinets? We have Openreach, Virgin and Community Fibre in our avenue now.

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The cabinet 2 streets down from me kept getting belted by cars, they come down the road at a rate of knots and forget that there is a junction, across the road they go and into the cabinet. Thankfully, it was not the one my FTTC was connected to.

I say kept getting belted as it have not happened for a few months.


The cabinet would be FTTC I expect, I don't know if openreach use cabinets for FTTP, I know Zzoomm does.

I've sent them a video of the accident!

It was just a FTTC cabinet. No FTTP network affected.
They certainly hit it hard though. Hopefully they'll have it working again in a day or 2

Yes, they've said May 2. This is the second such incident in the area in a year. Last year a car took out a Virgin Media cabinet just down the road!

I was partly asking because one of the residents in our road reported that she had been pushed by BT to switch to a digital phone, making me wonder why if she was on FTTC.

I was partly asking because one of the residents in our road reported that she had been pushed by BT to switch to a digital phone, making me wonder why if she was on FTTC.

Because BT Wholesale exchange based telephony is being switched off by the end of 2025, customers who still require a voice service are being moved to a VOIP based service.

I get the reasoning, but aren't BT required to give some advanced notice and explanation to people about this before doing it? I have been telling people in our street this is coming, but haven't seen any official guidance on when it is happening. Then I've been reading about delays because of problems with emergency equipment. Why was this individual picked on? I don't know of anyone else in a similar situation. My point is that no one is telling us anything about what is going on.