Unfortunately two separate items of information have been merged into one --
- SOGEA trials in selected areas.
- Trials of new network termination point designed, in the long term, to be an "as and when" replacement of the current NTE5.
I find it rather mischievous that the new type of network termination point has been designated as an
NTE5c.
The current NTE5 can be either an
NTE5/A or an
NTE5/B by changing the lower front face-plate. (The
/A presents the standard BT telephony socket and has IDCs on its reverse for the connection of extensions. The
/B is a blanking plate, no telephony socket, with IDCs on its reverse for the connection of extensions.)
The new basic network termination point, the "NTE5c", is proposed to accept a number of different face-plates -- not all of which have yet been manufactured in any quantity (if at all; still in the "vapour-ware"/planning/design phase) -- and may be changed as a result of long-term experimentation & testing.
The confusion is "helped along" by BT's
STIN517 referring to both the SOGEA trials
and the new network termination point, the "NTE5c".