Hi Dwight,
The data base is supposed to be top secret and is not normally revealed to ordinary members of the public.
Very sadly for us, BT has tightened their monopolistic grip on this vital national asset.
You will also be told that the network topology is not in the public domain, but if it's overhead you are allowed to look up and see where the lines go.
Strictly speaking the count is not of lines, as it's collated from the Post Office's Post code database of premises.
In all probability there are significantly more actual lines, but you will know better than I, depending upon the number of commercial properties and larger houses many of which used to have a phone line and a fax line.
If you have any industrial estates you may find that they are not commercially viable too, as BT prefer to charge far more for dedicated services there.
As I was busy at the time, I've just summed the numbers in each postcode, but I should have also adjusted any where the percentage figure is not 100%.
The numbers involved seem very large to me, but I'm only an amateur.
If you go into walking-boot mode, you may find there are SCPs too (Secondary Connection Points) which are effectively daisy-chained off the PCP.
You will be in for a very hard struggle unless a big row is brewing with the politicians and public servants.
Sadly the only competition, Virgin Media, isn't keen on major developments yet, but you could ask the question.
That might well be the strongest lever you have to get BT involved as it was in Ewhurst where, after our struggle since 2005, they destroyed our preferred supplier and then left a horrible unresolved mess, many on long lousy lines of up to 2.5 Km D sides.
Instead of our solution tailored to the population, BT in their infinite wisdom have only installed cables, single ducts and ECI 128 FTTCs with a maximum capacity of 300 services to cater for 900 houses with about 1,500 lines. Given sufficient delay BT sometimes enhance our streets by doubling the FTTCs. We have 50 or more houses that can't get a VDSL service at all. Below you'll see the magnificent result of two months struggle to improve a VDSL service which, along with about a dozen others were estimated at 19 Mbps but don't get anywhere near that value. This estimate has now been corrected to 2.2 Mbps Down and 0.4 up Mbps.
You might find some other interesting tidbits around here too:-
http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?p=3250Good luck !!!!
Kind regards,
Walter
