I notice on the PN forums in answer to the why not ECI question:
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=136287.64
Reply #66 on 18/03/2015, 19:28 » ECI cabinets have not been left out - it's already been/being rolled out on them.
I believe there may be some doubt about his statements though? He also says it increases latency?
I have spoken to an openreach engineer who says he cant find anything on the intranet to justify what andyh is saying, I dont know what reason andyh would have to lie on this tho other than to deflect anger towards openreach/plusnet. It is entirely posible my guy is wrong, but BS who posted on here about this as well said the same thing as my guy.
My guy basically said the same as black sheep which is if there was changes on the ECI cabinets then staff in the field would be told about it as it reflects in the troubleshooting process for faults. He did say tho its possible ECI may have been changed only in limited areas (testing) and that would be done without posting on the intranet.
I also asked him to check the page that andyh told me on the plusnet forum and he said there is no such section for engineers to access, suggesting andyh might have exec level access or something. But he is still digging for me to try and get some answers to the sort of things andyh posted.