Hi all,
New to the board, I just wanted to post my experiences in trying to find out why we have no high speed broadband options and the date when it might be available keeps getting pushed back. Below is the reply I got from OpenReach. I find it hard to believe that there isn't sufficient demand.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband at Kingsland green exchange cabinet 21. Our deployment is based on the commercial criteria for each cabinet and your cabinet fails to meet the commercial criteria. This is because the cabinet has too few premise connected to it, rendering it too small to provide a return on the investment based on the costs for the construction and on-going running costs of providing a new FTTC cabinet. When calculating the commercial viability of cabinet areas we take many factors into account. These include ensuring that we locate the cabinets in accordance with all national and local planning laws, ensuring that the cabinet does not obstruct pedestrians or provide a danger to all road-users. We must ensure that the DSLAM is located within 100m of its associated telephony connection cabinet and that there is adequate access to power and existing telephony infrastructure. To further enable the location of the DSLAM, we must accurately survey for underground structure and obstacles etc.
We do look at the demographic nature of the potential customers within a cabinets working area, however, we focus on the amount of connected lines at the time and not any potential expansion within a cabinet area as this is not guaranteed - this is the most efficient way to deploy fibre broadband whilst keeping within our finite budget. As such we look at the potential return for our investment over quite a number of years, with the prospective number of take up of the service being a large percentage of households.
Where cabinets are not in our footprint, or are not commercially viable, it is worth contacting your London Assembly Member or local council to register your interest in case any government funding becomes available to help fund deployment.
You may also wish to lobby your Assembly Member or local councillor on progress gaining funding for such deployment from the Government. You can also register your interest on the Openreach website at;
www.openreachfibrebroadband.co.uk/expression-gen.aspxPlease note, the telephony network over which fibre broadband is bespoke, as such, all premise are served from dedicated distribution points which are connected via their own underground duct network either directly to the exchange or to telephony cabinets. There are no interconnections that can be utilised to give fibre broadband services between cabinets, therefore, I’m afraid we technically can’t move your service. In addition, it is not Openreach policy to rearrange the network to enable services where they are not currently available, which is what would occur if your service was moved.
If you have any further questions, please ensure you have read the FAQ's on our website,
www.openreachfibrebroadband.co.uk/faq/ . If your question is answered within the FAQ section, we will not respond to your e-mail.
Regards
Tony Franklin
NGA Enquiries
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From: Andrew Ahearne [mailto:andrewahearne@hotmail.co.uk]
Sent: 22 October 2013 11:33
To: NGA Enquiries G
Subject: P21 Kingsland Green Cabinet
Hi,
I’m just wondering if there’s any additional information regarding cabinet P21. I’m very eager to upgrade to fibre broadband as are many residents in the Dalston Square complex. If there was some timetable regarding solving the problem listed on the site it would be very good to know.
Cheers,
Andrew
