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BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
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jgdoherty


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11-05-2012 09:41 PM

You may be able to guess that from the tone of my earlier posts, I have a moderately skeptical view of BT's pronouncements.

So far, BT have stated that for FTTC that there are only two circumstances when your telephone line is "Removed or Deferred from deployment ". Either it has a direct link back to the exchange or your line is categorised as being attached to a cabinet where there is insufficient demand from customers to make it commercially viable to activate that particular cabinet.

Several questions have to be asked of BT, these are:

Do you know if your line is in fact directly linked to the telephone exchange or is this one of BT's fallacies ?

If you are deemed to be in an area where only FTTC is to be delivered, are you actually connected to a low demand cabinet. If this is the case get your neighbours to express an interest in FTTC/P and raise BT's assessment of the demand.

For FTTP, in principle and in practice, neither of the two previous conditions apply. BT almost certainly have laid new fibre optic cable past your front door and unless you you are in an extraordinarily isolated location, FTTP is almost certainly deliverable to your address. As someone has said recently, have you seen Openreach vans and gangs of men pulling cables and installing them ?

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RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade - jgdoherty - 11-05-2012 09:41 PM