Likely to cabel new areas?

Hi,

I live in a housing area that is newer than the surrounding hosuing (though about 15 years old). The estates literally next to mine were cabled by NTL, but when these new houses were built they wernt cabled. Even though being 3.5km directly from our BT exchange, unfortunatly the cable route makes it 5.5km+ so ADSL is naff here.

How likely is it that if I were to get enough people to sign up virgin will consider extending the network to this estate? Its a known wealthy estate of maybe 250 houses and thats a conservative estimate, just a shame the infrastructure is all to pot.

Just thought i should add that from my house i can see the street which is NTL cabled and it is no more than 200m away. Admitantly through a field, however whats stopping them laying cables through the footpath? wouldnt that be cheaper anyway without the roadworks?

Cheers for any replies

About a year ago there was talk of Virgin expanding its network to another 500,000 homes or so but ive not read or heard anything about this since.

it may have been put on hold cos of the credit crunch.

This thread on Digital Spy may be of interest ....

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=...

Somebody claiming to be a VM bod soliciting requests for infill areas such as yours but interested mainly (well only) in....

Scotland (including but not limited to� Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth)
North West England (including but not limited to� Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Wigan, Blackpool, Stockport)
North East England (including but not limited to� Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough)
Northern Ireland (including but not limited to� Belfast, Derry)

Got more chance of BT re-routing your line than Virgin ripping the road up and installing cable.

I, like yourself live in a cabled area. The older streets around here all have cable. Telewest came down when the estate was being developed and enquired about installing cable. The developer wanted too much money and Telwest did one.

Wasn't a problem back then, we had Sky analogue so didn't matter.

It now does because our internet is ropey. Everyone who can get Virgin has it and so the demand for stuff like Sky broadband and TalkTalk is low, we can't get that either.

I fired an email off to cablemystreet who contacted the local authorities. They came back with a price of £350 per household to install cable (cable runs in the pavement at the top of the road) and Virgin's current budget is £250.

So no joy at all. I'll try again next year and see what they say.

In reply to a post by JimKirk363:

About a year ago there was talk of Virgin expanding its network to another 500,000 homes or so but ive not read or heard anything about this since.

it may have been put on hold cos of the credit crunch.

They've been releasing new homes all year doing infill builds and overbuilds.

Check out this post from Virgin's own forums.

No chance ...

Virgin cable runs straight past my driveway. The neighbour to one side has service but myself and the neighbour on the other side cannot get service because, to quote them, "your garden is too long and we cannot get across the river".

Well, gas, phones, electricity, water, people, pets, wild animals, &c &c all seem to make it just that Virgin cannot be bothered.

Can you dig the trench they need yourself? Then just get Virgin to wack the cable in.

There are new builds around here with green cabs, CATV dp's and they can't get cable. Virgin couldn't be arsed to wire them up.

nope u cant + u dont even know if public land would need to be dug up which would mean they would require council permission or closing of roads which would cost a lot of money hence less chance of it happening.

About 7 years ago we lived at AL7 2QF in Welwyn Garden City - 80s/90s new build estate - not cabled, 3.4 km from exchange, no ADSL whatsoever - line too long.

Fast forward 7 years and still no cable. The neighbouring "Panshanger" area is cabled, though. Frustrating, isn't it.