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Chineham was always going to get it.... the Basingstoke fibre runs down from Reading along the A33 pretty much straight through it

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Fibre goes through my town also and ive spoke to lightning but it fell on deaf ears

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Still not much expansion in North West England for some reason.

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Which part of the country are you in?

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I'm in Scotland, there is a cab 1 mile south of my house and a cab 1 mile east. To join the cab up there are pits and some houses even have tees.

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Not as simple as physical network, all depends on where you would be served from and whats required in the technical environment. There is a lot of expansion planned in Scotland this year and into next including some seriously impressive FTTH expansion. Watch this space!

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Good to hear.

Hopefully be able to get the FTTP stuff in West Yorkshire underway at some point, seems to have been delayed.

The Middleton build started in May-ish of last year is 85-90% done but stalled currently.

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Middleton is HFC build and has been in design/deploy for a few years now. This pre-dates project lightning by some considerable time. There is quite a bit in West Yorkshire planned but not in areas that would surprise you.

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Bit of infil around Bebington might be nice, Infinity cabinets are full so plenty of pent up demand :)

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Bit of infill around Wirral in general would be nice! But yes, Bebongton would seem easy as it's all coming from the industrial estate in Bromborough anyway. Heswall wouldn't be too difficult either, they've got empty ducting running to it from Neston. Parts of Meols, Moreton and Parkgate have ducts and tees to the houses even.

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Ah yes, the more laid back part of town :dozey:

But more seriously, yes, the Wirral does seem ripe for a rollout.

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Indeed it is HFC. Was planned a bit before VM got the hang of FTTP and started build last year.

Pre-dated Lightning but rolled into it later on.

I'm aware of much of the stuff in West Yorkshire - the villages to the east of Leeds are next I believe and they are going to be FTTP.

Held up now waiting on a couple of different things before releasing some more homes. Build will likely carry on a bit at a time for a couple of years yet.

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The bit I'm looking forward to seeing includes a very awkward part of London alongside a large town that's currently unserved in the South-East.

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Isle of Dogs/Canary Wharf??

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Watch this space Horizon ;)

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Not the one I was thinking of, but I wouldn't blink if it were built out to, especially given there are some assets there that can be reused.

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Now it's been announced the area I had in mind was Westminster.

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Westminster is interesting because its home to the politicians, wealthy and the powerful so lots of potential income for VM there. But it also has some of the worst slums in the country too.

Central London is very much going through a transition at the moment. It's always been home to the uber rich while having extreme poverty too. Gradually those in social housing are "getting moved on" and it will just become a place for the elite only. Perhaps this is why VM are getting involved now.

Plus, didn't BT used to own the ducting in and around Westminster which is why there never was a cable service there? How this been resolved, ie who owns the ducts?

The article says that VM are expanding into areas such as Croydon and Hammersmith, but I thought they were already there, so I'm assuming its just infilling areas that have been missed??

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BT still own the ducting. VM will build from scratch.

The other areas will indeed be infill.

Barnet sounds like it's going to be a hybrid. Some treated as 'new build' and built as FTTP, other bits in-fill. Barnet has relatively low cable coverage, barely 43%, so there's a lot of building to do there.

Somewhere like Croydon is definitely infill; Croydon, the borough, is 87% cabled right now.

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i've always been a bit fuzzy on Westminster.

ntl bought the Westminster and Milton Keynes franchises from BT. So I would have thought the duct would have been part of that?

but maybe not.

Actually now I seem to vaguely recall some kind of leasing arrangement that ntl had to lease the BT equipment so maybe that extended to the duct?

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ntl had/have a 99 year lease on the franchises, Pierre. They never actually bought them.

http://m.broadcastnow.co.uk/1217568.article

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Everything above ground was NTL's responsibility and below was BT's. There ductwork and network cables

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:D

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old thread but the plug was finally pulled from Milton Keynes (250k+ homes) not long after the last post on here. VM being unwilling to keep paying £3m annual lease payment while being blocked to upgrading system to digital.

I wonder if MK could yet be a new build after all?