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[Closed] Fibre rollout reaches village but...

leftyboy · 2013-11-25T19:20:30Z

[RANT] So fibre broadband has reached my village and it's a year earlier than originally predicted, everyone in the village cheers. On checking my telephone number I discover I'm connected to cabinet 8 and that cabinet 8 is not fibre enabled! After a quick straw pole it looks like 2 cabinets in the village are not enabled the rest are. Looking at BT Openreach and BT Wholesales websites I discover that sometime a cabinet can't be fibre enabled because it doesn't serve enough customers, and to add insult to injury once you're connected to a cabinet that's it and you can't be connected to a different one! So quite a few people I know could get decent broadband but don't want/need it and quite a few can't but do want/need it! One of those "that's just life" moments I guess [/RANT] Not really looking for sympathy, comment or discussion just wanted to VENT :-)

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Creg

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My village supposedly falls under the new "High Speed Yorkshire" programme and the exchange has been upgraded according to BT.

However when I put my details into any of the ISP line checkers I only get 2MB maximum so it looks like everywhere in the village apart from my area is going to get it.

Posted : 10/06/2014 8:05 am

sharkbait

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Do the post code checker on the Openreach site (link from BT Infinity line checker). This will probably tell you more about the state of your exchange and your posibilities of getting fibre.

Posted : 10/06/2014 9:40 am

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