Monday 19 September 2016

Moss Road End fibre?

New all-in-one cabinet for Moss road end

16/02493/TELNOT | Installation of telecommunications apparatus | Land South West Of Cuil North Connel Argyll And Bute

https://publicaccess.argyll-bute.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=map&keyVal=ODDUPSCH0A900

Fibre heading down this way?


Monday 12 September 2016

Benderloch BT Fibre cabinets ETA July 2017?

Here's today's Estimate planned go-live dates for additional cabinets in Benderloch:

Cabinet P1  FTTC Available from 18th December 2015  Phase BDUK HIE 12a      149  Huawei  PA37 1PY  
Cabinet E_2  FTTC doing Design, live due by January 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet P2  FTTC doing Design, live due by July 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet E_3  FTTC doing Design, live due by January 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet P3  FTTC doing Design, live due by July 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet E_4  FTTC doing Design, live due by January 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet P4  FTTC doing Design, live due by July 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet P5  FTTC doing Design, live due by July 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    
Cabinet E_6  FTTC doing Design, live due by January 2017  Phase BDUK HIE 16a        Huawei    

I presume, the four "January 2017" E2/E3/E4/E6 planning applications are for the green streetside 'all-in'one' cabinets already submitted to A&B Council - namely:
Ardbhatan, Benderloch
Tyree, Benderloch
Ferlum, Benderloch,
Gair Na Mara, Barcaldine

Doing some reading, "Cabinet E_%" refers to an Exchange bundle - or a group of Exchange-Only lines (telephone lines that connect straight back the Exchange, not via a green cabinet, and hence currently can't benefit from FTTC fibre broadband).

Cabinet "P%" refers to a physical cabinet "PCP" on the street. My understanding is that an Exchange-only line can be marked for upgrade, but since there is no physical cabinet then it is referenced "E_%" until the plan for the cabinet is finalised and a "Cabinet P%" is created. It then takes sometime for the entry in the database for the E reference to be removed, so there will be one "E_%" entry and one "P%" entry for each new cabinet installed for an Exchange-only bundle. The numbering schemes for the Exchange bundles and the PCP cabinets may not necessarily match as it appears they increment the P% numbers as they are created rather than matching the corresponding Exchange bundle.

So I infer from this that the go-live date for FTTC at these new Benderloch cabinets is July 2017