Thanks kannanni

As to your hope that FTTP will come to Kirkdale in the near future, I spotted yesterday that BT Openreach are trialling "FTTP On-demand".

They describe this as extending fibre from the nearest cabinet to the premises in areas already enabled for FTTC, if and when requested by the subscriber. There is no mention of installation costs or achievable speeds.

Timescales as ever can be open-ended with BT - they go through phases of "trialling", then "pilot" and finally "rollout".

It is worth remembering that BT did make public statements at the end of 2011 that their 40mbps offering would have the speed doubled in first quarter 2012.

Good luck.