Openreach announces latest fibre roll-out

Nightglow · 26 Dec 2011 at 10:58

Not sure if this has been already mentioned, but they are adding a further 178 exchanges to the fttc rollout for 2012.

http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/Showarticle.cfm?ArticleID=5D490029-9378-46B1-922D-94A8F8F29AA9

Gman · 26 Dec 2011 at 12:02

ohh my exchange is on the list, what's surprising is that I've already got FTTC through Digital Region so in theory BT could easily enable the exchange right now.

sven256 · 26 Dec 2011 at 12:20

Mine is still not being done, despite serving well over 20,000 people.

MissChief · 26 Dec 2011 at 13:49

Nicely it only says my town which has two exchanges, but doesn't specify which one is being upgraded!

ci_newman · 26 Dec 2011 at 14:51

Gman said:
ohh my exchange is on the list, what's surprising is that I've already got FTTC through Digital Region so in theory BT could easily enable the exchange right now.

Except that the digital region project uses fibre that terminates in a seperate cab that BT have no access to

As for the new BT dates, i would take them with a bucket load of salt. they have just moved back some activations by several months, originally quoting a december 2011 completion. Either way, i already have it here anyway

Caged · 26 Dec 2011 at 15:13

MissChief said:
Nicely it only says my town which has two exchanges, but doesn't specify which one is being upgraded!

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ should say

HangTime · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:51

Still nothing here, so guess I'll have to hope for ADSL2 or Cable to arrive in the next couple of years instead.

MissChief · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:01

Caged said:
http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ should say

Thanks, it says end of 2012. A long time away but I can't complain too much, I already have 20meg.

VaderDSL · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:03

Guess which exchange I'm on.

Gman · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:23

isn't this all a bit miss leading as this all focuses on the exchange getting FTTC enabled, In reality you need the Exchange AND the CAB updated/installed.

VaderDSL · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:30

Gman said:
isn't this all a bit miss leading as this all focuses on the exchange getting FTTC enabled, In reality you need the Exchange AND the CAB updated/installed.

Very true, but I guess if the exchange is being upgraded then you've got a lot more chance to have your local CAB upgraded. I'll be on 4mb for the next few years I reckon

3dcandy · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:05

no hope of my exchange being upgraded...not even got 21cn here yet!

PiKe · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:11

No FTTC for lcwin but I'm quite happy on re-sold talktalk LLU for the moment.

hellarda · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:45

*excitedly looks at list for exchange*

oh wait...

Spudgun · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:02

Getting a bit of a sense of deja-vu here - Isn't this information more than 2 weeks old and has been discussed in depth on the big FTTC/FTTP thread?