I've asked someone a couple of rungs up the ladder from Ian Binks what the score is here.
I'd be pretty surprised if BT Group know which cabinets are being enabled in non-trial areas by 2018.
I'd be even more surprised if BT Group are going to cover all cabinets on an exchange where 11 of 27 don't have FTTC yet and a further one has no plans for it even now.
Most surprising of all would be a Regional Partnership Director giving such commercially sensitive, confidential information to a random person on the Internet.
I have dealt with Regional Partnership Director level. Those I have dealt with were extremely mindful of confidentiality, you don't get to that level in an organisation like BT with loose lips, and any even remotely sensitive information was provided verbally, not in writing, under strict condition of my preserving its confidentiality.
If BT Group do have such information I think their customers, the CPs, deserve it before randoms online, and in turn the rest of us can find it out. For Ian Binks to have provided this information would've been a huge no-no.
If Ian Binks didn't give this information he should probably be made aware that some random online is making things up about him that risk his job. He'll probably be quite aware of who that person is as he'll have likely had dealings with them in the past.
Of course I can't exclude that he could've just written whatever to said person to get rid of them, as they've a history of obsessively contacting various people in BT.
It goes a tad beyond the usual nonsense you find online when a man's job is being put in jeopardy.
The feedback I've had so far on my request is that the matter is being taken very seriously. Now would be a good time for any retractions that are required to be made.