To sum up,
you really would like to be on BT's Infinity, but that wont arrive until next march - and even then it might not be available on your cabinet.

Therefore, in the meantime, you need a decent ISP that will either not lock you into a long contract to enable you to migrate over if fibre becomes available or will migrate you over.

I have two suggestions.
Firstly, find out if your cabinet is to be upgraded along with the exchange.
Secondly, find an ISP that will migrate / release you if this is so.

Credit to mkel78 for this thread in which he's posted up this document (page 6) showing postcodes for cabinets to be upgraded
- have a look & see if yours is there.
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Wow thats brilliant greemble, thank you.

Yes thats exactly my position.

I've had a look and put my postcode in and it was on there, got this back god know what it means i hope its good news..?

SLSPK,SUDBROOKE PARK,LN3 ***,{SLSPK}{p7},0,100,111.13,6b,Yes,FTTC

Edited by deleted (Fri 29-Jul-11 19:52:32)

It does appear to be good news for you.

It's four of the last five sections you really need to see.
100 (% of lines on the cabinet)
6b (phase of the rollout - next March)
Yes (�YES� = Part of scheduled deployment)
FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet)

So it does seem that your cabinet will be one of those to get fibre.

However, please note the dates may be pushed back - BT have done so with a number of exchanges around the country and the disclaimers at the top of the spreadsheet:

Whilst BT has endeavoured to ensure accuracy of the information contained in this document it cannot be guaranteed. BT cannot accept liability for any inaccuracies contained within this document.

and:

Caveat; This list is only a current indication of cabinet to post code service correlation and may be subject to change in the longer term if re-routing of network connections is required at any time

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Yeah i appreciate it won't be that much of an accurate date and probably be a few months out worse off.

Just wanted to find out if they will be upgrading the exchange and it would benefit where we're moving too in the long run.

I'll probably go with BT in the anticipation then.

I don't know their policy of upgrading the service during the contract, but i doubt they will not let you give them more money and upgrade to infinity surely not?

I think there is only one cabinet in our village anyway, so surely would make sense them to just upgrade one to service a fair few properties...

Thanks for your help guys

In reply to a post by epyon:

Well BT is unlimited but is throttled at peaktimes with protocols like p2p and vpn

for orange though i'm not sure now since they basically resell BTs package but probably have some kind of fair usage policy

Not really accurate.

Orange is now a BT Wholesale white label product with its own package specification. It bears no relation to BT (Retail) Broadband packages and does not run through the BT Broadband system as the normal punter would understand it.

It is not a resold BT package, any more than Vodaphone or the Post Office is. (Two more BT Wholesale white label ISPs).

It's still worth considering TalkTalk unless there is something in their package you don't like. When FTTC comes to your village it is a simple £10pm "Boost" to have it.

Similarly with Plusnet, FTTC is just £10pm on top of their standard packages, but includes double the download allowance.

In reply to a post by greemble:

It does appear to be good news for you.

It's four of the last five sections you really need to see.
100 (% of lines on the cabinet)
6b (phase of the rollout - next March)
Yes (�YES� = Part of scheduled deployment)
FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet)

So it does seem that your cabinet will be one of those to get fibre.

However, please note the dates may be pushed back - BT have done so with a number of exchanges around the country and the disclaimers at the top of the spreadsheet:

Whilst BT has endeavoured to ensure accuracy of the information contained in this document it cannot be guaranteed. BT cannot accept liability for any inaccuracies contained within this document.

and:

Caveat; This list is only a current indication of cabinet to post code service correlation and may be subject to change in the longer term if re-routing of network connections is required at any time

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Well i'm confused i'm not sure if my exchange has been taken off the list to be done, after BT released there latest round press release..

I know the above document could change but i'm getting conflicting reports.

Sudbrook Park says 2012 on BT's Main Site

On Openreach's site it is on the list of Exchanges coming soon when i'm sure it was on Future exchanges, so been moved over. Those PDF's seem to have been updated recently too.

Especially as BT have released there next 114 exchanges however, its not on there.

So not sure what going on, fingers crossed they still plan on doing it around March next year!

In reply to a post by jezthomp:

Well i'm confused i'm not sure if my exchange has been taken off the list to be done, after BT released there latest round press release..

I know the above document could change but i'm getting conflicting reports.

Sudbrook Park says 2012 on BT's Main Site

On Openreach's site it is on the list of Exchanges coming soon when i'm sure it was on Future exchanges, so been moved over. Those PDF's seem to have been updated recently too.

Especially as BT have released there next 114 exchanges however, its not on there.

So not sure what going on, fingers crossed they still plan on doing it around March next year!

Hi, it looks you are set on BT FTTC 40 Meg broadband, have you looked on the BT wholesale website link for (Latest FTTC Exchange and Cab Availability)?

https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/B...

Is there any cabs for aberdeen on that list as its on the march rollout list also.

In reply to a post by E7er:

In reply to a post by jezthomp:

Well i'm confused i'm not sure if my exchange has been taken off the list to be done, after BT released there latest round press release..

I know the above document could change but i'm getting conflicting reports.

Sudbrook Park says 2012 on BT's Main Site

On Openreach's site it is on the list of Exchanges coming soon when i'm sure it was on Future exchanges, so been moved over. Those PDF's seem to have been updated recently too.

Especially as BT have released there next 114 exchanges however, its not on there.

So not sure what going on, fingers crossed they still plan on doing it around March next year!

Hi, it looks you are set on BT FTTC 40 Meg broadband, have you looked on the BT wholesale website link for (Latest FTTC Exchange and Cab Availability)?

https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/B...

Well is this good news?

Exchange due to be enabled end of March and a new green box has appeared in our village.