Exchange is fibre enabled, but my line isn't?

iniltous

cant_think_of_a_name wrote: »

thanks for the link, YoungNick, I think I might have to do that!

Basil, that website tells me the same as the document I was reffering to earlier. That there were 2 cabinets covering 99% of my postcode deployed for FTTP in Dec 2011. Which leads me to another question that iniltous has part answered. I now know what it stands for, but what exactly does FTTP mean?

FTTP is where a fibre optic cable is installed to your home, so there is no conventional copper pair cable, (FTTC still has a part copper route from the street cabinet to your home, the fibre is from the exchange to the cab)
FTTP is 'faster' than FTTC , something like 300Mb/sec download compared to 80Mb for FTTC and theoretically can go even faster than that....some areas are BT FTTC and some are where the EU or local councils have provided some or all of the funds to install FTTP ,but Openreach have won the bids to install the infrastructure,on their behalf.
Cornwall is one area where FTTP is available

yangptangkipperbang

penrhyn wrote: »

Seek out ou nearest BT street cabinet, they have a habit of putting a sticker on them when the FTTC is available. Well they do round here.

The stickers are at the discretion of the local council as they are classed as advertising.
I have fibre now (and mighty good it is too :T), but all the new cabinets are stickerless !

VisionMan

Theres no sticker on our street cab either. Indeed, we don't even have a new street cab! Yet we're all fibre enabled.

penrhyn

In which case the BT OR sticker should be replaced with a Bill Stickers will be prosecuted sticker.:p

yangptangkipperbang

penrhyn wrote: »

In which case the BT OR sticker should be replaced with a Bill Stickers will be prosecuted sticker.:p

Yes - but Bill would have to get permission first to put his sticker there first :rotfl::rotfl:

penrhyn

......and of course.

cant_think_of_a_name_2

Just to add more confusion to the matter. I've realised that my neighbour who who can get fibre, only has fibra available on 1 of his 2 phone lines!?

mattyprice4004

cant_think_of_a_name wrote: »

Just to add more confusion to the matter. I've realised that my neighbour who who can get fibre, only has fibra available on 1 of his 2 phone lines!?

It all depends which cabinet your line terminates at.

Either way, you can't get fibre if BT have told you that you can't.

eljmayes

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

The stickers are at the discretion of the local council as they are classed as advertising.
I have fibre now (and mighty good it is too :T), but all the new cabinets are stickerless !

To call that advertising is a bit of a stretch. It's quite a useful (if primitive) system for the general public to know that a cabinet is ready.