But that is the whole point. As things stand, with the deal BT agreed with the Govt, we don't have a hope (*) and never will. Not next year, not in 5 years, the current plan is that about 6 million people in Britain will not ever get VDSL. That is never, no hope, ever.
Join the crowd as they say.
The two main cabinets in my village are not to be upgraded under BDUK.
They are approximately 500 yards from cable run ducts from the exchange to other cabinets in adjacent villages which are being upgraded....so hardly a logistical nightmare to get fibre to. Both have power from lamp posts available within about 30 yards - so again no problem there.
Number of residences served on these two is 228 for one, 187 in the other.
Interestingly the cab on edge of village nearest to exchange (so already having the best speeds) but only serving 100 properties is being upgraded....well that's nice isn't it.
So let's work on the logic here.....as on the face of it the smallest number of people with already the best speeds are getting the upgrade while the rest on the lowest speeds are not. Precisely the opposite of what BDUK was intended to do.
Significantly the sole cab' being upgraded has the highest population density close to it. So of the 100 or so lines, near to 100% will actually be able to achieve true SFBB speeds if they took up the service. The other two cabs have a much more spread out population density as evidenced by their service areas being very much larger.
Checking the cumulative % metrics for the 228 line cab I find that just 25% of residences are within 500 meters of it, 60% within 1000m, and 69% within 1500m. This is significantly lower than the National Average of 60% within 500m, 80% in 1000m and 98% within 1500m.
You also need to factor in the universal use of Aluminum cable round here.
So our conclusion is rather than logistical difficulties, cost etc the no-upgrade decision is more due to the fact that a limited number of residences which would be able to get a true SFBB from the upgrades.
This leads us to the startling concept that FTTC is not suitable for these cabs/service area due to the way they were laid out in the ?1960?'s, and until some future technology such as FTTdP or G.Fast or full FTTP comes along we will be on ADSL2+ for the foreseeable future.
Mind you this is all not half as bad as a compact village in another county with a central cabinet serving all 100+ or so properties: ideal for FTTC. The snag is they are miles from anywhere including the exchange so currently get around 0.7Mbps and also are not being upgraded under BDUK. Quite how they are going to be given the minimum 2Mbps promised for those left out under BDUK/FTTC program they wait to see.