Never a dull moment on this blog so here are is the next bit of excitement for today. This is the list of exchanges to be covered by phases 4b and 5 of the FTTC broadband rollout plan between summer 2010 and summer 2011 and follows on from a previous post with the list for phases 1 – 4.
Together with the current published exchanges these latest names will provide coverage to ~6.3 million homes and premises.
BT have specifically asked me to write in blood that these are very much subject to change so don’t go believing everything I write (difficult concept I know 🙂 )
“Update from 18th March – a complete list of exchange availability dates is now held on the trefor.net fttc page. This is updated as I get news in from BT.”
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CLERKENWELL
KENTISH TOWN
KINGSLAND GREEN
LOWER HOLLOWAY
NEW CROSS
SOUTHWARK
UPPER HOLLOWAY
WALWORTH
BERKSWELL
BURNTWOOD
CHESLYN HAY
HEATH HAYES
KNOWLE
LEAMINGTON SPA
LICHFIELD
RUGBY
STRATFORD-ON-AVON
BISHOPS STORTFORD
BOREHAM
BURY ST. EDMONDS
DOWNHALL
LEIGH ON SEA
SOUTH BENFLEET
SOUTHEND ON SEA, ESSEX
WICKFORD
DAVENTRY
FAZELEY
GREAT OAKLEY
HUNTINGDON
LOUGHBOROUGH
LONG EATON
MICKLEOVER
MARKET DEEPING
MARKET HARBOROUGH
NARBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE
OADBY
POLESWORTH
RUSHDEN
SHERWOOD
ST.IVES, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
STAMFORD
ST.NEOTS
SUTTON IN THE ELMS
SWADLINCOTE
TRENTSIDE
WESTON FAVEL
YAXLEY
ASHTON- ON-RIBBLE
ASTLEY BRIDGE
BIRKDALE
CHORLEY
FORMBY
LANCASTER
LITTLEBOROUGH
PENWORTHAM
RAMSBOTTOM
ROCHDALE
ROSSENDALE
TOTTINGTON
BOWES PARK
CROUCH END
CLAPTON
FINCHLEY
GOODMAYES
GANTS HILL
HACKNEY
ILFORD CENTRAL
ILFORD NORTH
LEYTONSTONE
NORTH FINCHLEY
PALMERS GREEN
POPLAR
ROMFORD
STRATFORD
UPTON PARK
WINCHMORE HILL
WALTHAMSTOW
ADDISCOMBE
BALHAM
BECKENHAM
BEULAH HILL
BEXLEYHEATH
BROMLEY
CHESSINGTON
CHISLEHURST
SOUTH CLAPHAM
CROYDON
CATFORD
DEPTFORD
DULWICH
FOREST HILL
GIPSY HILL
GROVE PARK
HAYES COMMON
KIDBROOKE
KINGSTON
LEE GREEN
MALDEN
MOLESEY
MORTLAKE
NORTH CHEAM
NORBURY
PURLEY
RICHMOND KEW, SURREY
RUSHEY GREEN
SANDERSTEAD
STREATHAM
SURBITON
TEDDINGTON
THORNTON HEATH
TULSE HILL
WALLINGTON
WANDSWORTH
WALTON-ON- THAMES
WORCESTER PARK
WEST WICKHAM
HESWALL
LYMM
PENKETH
STOCKTON HEATH
ACTON
ASHFORD, MIDDLESEX
BUSHEY HEATH
CHISWICK
COLINDALE
CRICKLEWOOD
EALING
EDGWARE
EGHAM
FELTHAM
GOLDERS GREEN
HAMMERSMITH
HARLESDEN
HARROW
HAYES
HENDON
HOUNSLOW
ISLEWORTH
KENSAL GREEN
KINGSBURY
KNELLER HALL
KENTON ROAD
MILL HILL
NORTH EDGWARE
NORTHOLT
NORTH WEMBLEY
NORTHWOOD
PERIVALE
PINNER
RUISLIP
SOUTH HARROW
SHEPHERDS BUSH
SOUTHALL
STAINES
STANMORE
TWICKENHAM
UXBRIDGE
WEST DRAYTON
WEMBLEY
WILLESDEN
HARTFORD
HULME HALL
MACCLESFIELD
MIDDLEWICH
NORTHWICH
SALE
STEPPING HILL
WHITEFIELD
WINSFORD, CHESHIRE
GARFORTH
HAWORTH
HARROGATE
MORLEY
ROTHWELL, WEST YORKSHIRE
YORK
ASHFORD, KENT
BEARSTED
BLUE BELL HILL
CANTERBURY
COPTHORNE
CROWBOROUGH
EAST GRINSTEAD
GRAVESEND
HERNE BAY
SEVENOAKS
TONBRIDGE
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
UCKFIELD
WEST MALLING
AYCLIFFE
CRAMLINGTON
GOSFORTH, TYNE & WEAR
INGLEBY BARWICK
NEWTOWNARDS
BURGESS HILL
CRAWLEY
HORLEY
HORSHAM
HAYWARDS HEATH
POUND HILL
PORTSMOUTH NORTH END
SOUTHWATER
BRIGHTON WITHDEAN
WATERLOOVILLE
BROOMHILL
CHESTERFIELD
DRONFIELD
MOSBOROUGH
ABINGDON
AMERSHAM
BANBURY
BEACONSFIELD
BEDFORD TOWN
MILTON KEYNES
CHESHAM
HEADINGTON
HOLMER GREEN
HITCHIN
HIGH WYCOMBE
LEIGHTON BUZZARD
OXFORD
PENN, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
SUMMERTOWN
STONY STRATFORD
SHENLEY CHURCH END
STEVENAGE
WANTAGE
WOLVERTON
BATH KINGSMEAD
MIDSOMER NORTON
RADSTOCK
SWINDON
TROWBRIDGE
BOTLEY
RINGWOOD
TOTTON
WINCHESTER
BRIDGEND
CHEPSTOW
HENGOED
LLANTRISANT
NEWTOWN LLANTWIT
ALDERSHOT
ASCOT
ALTON
BAGSHOT
BOURNE END
BRACKNELL
BURNHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
BROOKWOOD
BORDON
BLACKWATER
CAMBERLEY
FARNBOROUGH, HAMPSHIRE
FARNHAM
FLEET, HAMPSHIRE
GODALMING
GUILDFORD
GERRARDS CROSS
HASLEMERE
MARLOW
NEWBURY
READING CENTRAL
SLOUGH
THATCHAM
TWYFORD, BERKSHIRE
TILEHURST
WOODLEY, BERKSHIRE
WOKING
WINDSOR
WINKFIELD ROW
YATELEY
BAYSWATER
HAMPSTEAD
LORDS
MAIDA VALE
PRIMROSE HILL
ALSAGER
BROMSGROVE
DROITWICH
EVESHAM
FERNHILL HEATH
HASLINGTON
SANDBACH
WORCESTER ST.JOHNS
WORCESTER ST.PETERS
WORCESTER
CHESTER CENTRAL
CHESTER NORTH
CHESTER SOUTH
CONNAHS QUAY
HAWARDEN
BATTERSEA
BRIXTON
CHELSEA
EARLS COURT
FULHAM
NINE ELMS
PIMLICO
SOUTH KENSINGTON
VAUXHALL
WEST KENSINGTON
EXETER
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That’s one ugly list. Here’s a Python version with some glitches due to “capwords()” (code available upon request) :
Abingdon___________________Lee Green__________________
Acton______________________Leigh On Sea_______________
Addiscombe_________________Leighton Buzzard___________
Aldershot__________________Leytonstone________________
Alsager____________________Lichfield__________________
Alton______________________Littleborough______________
Amersham___________________Llantrisant________________
Ascot______________________Long Eaton_________________
Ashford, Kent______________Lords______________________
Ashford, Middlesex_________Loughborough_______________
Ashton- On-ribble__________Lower Holloway_____________
Astley Bridge______________Lymm_______________________
Aycliffe___________________Macclesfield_______________
Bagshot____________________Maida Vale_________________
Balham_____________________Malden_____________________
Banbury____________________Market Deeping_____________
Bath Kingsmead_____________Market Harborough__________
Battersea__________________Marlow_____________________
Bayswater__________________Mickleover_________________
Beaconsfield_______________Middlewich_________________
Bearsted___________________Midsomer Norton____________
Beckenham__________________Mill Hill__________________
Bedford Town_______________Milton Keynes______________
Berkswell__________________Molesey____________________
Beulah Hill________________Morley_____________________
Bexleyheath________________Mortlake___________________
Birkdale___________________Mosborough_________________
Bishops Stortford__________Narborough, Leicestershire_
Blackwater_________________New Cross__________________
Blue Bell Hill_____________Newbury____________________
Bordon_____________________Newtown Llantwit___________
Boreham____________________Newtownards________________
Botley_____________________Nine Elms__________________
Bourne End_________________Norbury____________________
Bowes Park_________________North Cheam________________
Bracknell__________________North Edgware______________
Bridgend___________________North Finchley_____________
Brighton Withdean__________North Wembley______________
Brixton____________________Northolt___________________
Bromley____________________Northwich__________________
Bromsgrove_________________Northwood__________________
Brookwood__________________Oadby______________________
Broomhill__________________Oxford_____________________
Burgess Hill_______________Palmers Green______________
Burnham, Buckinghamshire___Penketh____________________
Burntwood__________________Penn, Buckinghamshire______
Bury St. Edmonds___________Penwortham_________________
Bushey Heath_______________Perivale___________________
Camberley__________________Pimlico____________________
Canterbury_________________Pinner_____________________
Catford____________________Polesworth_________________
Chelsea____________________Poplar_____________________
Chepstow___________________Portsmouth North End_______
Chesham____________________Pound Hill_________________
Cheslyn Hay________________Primrose Hill______________
Chessington________________Purley_____________________
Chester Central____________Radstock___________________
Chester North______________Ramsbottom_________________
Chester South______________Reading Central____________
Chesterfield_______________Richmond Kew, Surrey_______
Chislehurst________________Ringwood___________________
Chiswick___________________Rochdale___________________
Chorley____________________Romford____________________
Clapton____________________Rossendale_________________
Clerkenwell________________Rothwell, West Yorkshire___
Colindale__________________Rugby______________________
Connahs Quay_______________Ruislip____________________
Copthorne__________________Rushden____________________
Cramlington________________Rushey Green_______________
Crawley____________________Sale_______________________
Cricklewood________________Sandbach___________________
Crouch End_________________Sanderstead________________
Crowborough________________Sevenoaks__________________
Croydon____________________Shenley Church End_________
Daventry___________________Shepherds Bush_____________
Deptford___________________Sherwood___________________
Downhall___________________Slough_____________________
Droitwich__________________South Benfleet_____________
Dronfield__________________South Clapham______________
Dulwich____________________South Harrow_______________
Ealing_____________________South Kensington___________
Earls Court________________Southall___________________
East Grinstead_____________Southend On Sea, Essex_____
Edgware____________________Southwark__________________
Egham______________________Southwater_________________
Evesham____________________St.ives, Cambridgeshire____
Exeter_____________________St.neots___________________
Farnborough, Hampshire_____Staines____________________
Farnham____________________Stamford___________________
Fazeley____________________Stanmore___________________
Feltham____________________Stepping Hill______________
Fernhill Heath_____________Stevenage__________________
Finchley___________________Stockton Heath_____________
Fleet, Hampshire___________Stony Stratford____________
Forest Hill________________Stratford-on-avon__________
Formby_____________________Stratford__________________
Fulham_____________________Streatham__________________
Gants Hill_________________Summertown_________________
Garforth___________________Surbiton___________________
Gerrards Cross_____________Sutton In The Elms_________
Gipsy Hill_________________Swadlincote________________
Godalming__________________Swindon____________________
Golders Green______________Teddington_________________
Goodmayes__________________Thatcham___________________
Gosforth, Tyne & Wear______Thornton Heath_____________
Gravesend__________________Tilehurst__________________
Great Oakley_______________Tonbridge__________________
Grove Park_________________Tottington_________________
Guildford__________________Totton_____________________
Hackney____________________Trentside__________________
Hammersmith________________Trowbridge_________________
Hampstead__________________Tulse Hill_________________
Harlesden__________________Tunbridge Wells____________
Harrogate__________________Twickenham_________________
Harrow_____________________Twyford, Berkshire_________
Hartford___________________Uckfield___________________
Haslemere__________________Upper Holloway_____________
Haslington_________________Upton Park_________________
Hawarden___________________Uxbridge___________________
Haworth____________________Vauxhall___________________
Hayes Common_______________Wallington_________________
Hayes______________________Walthamstow________________
Haywards Heath_____________Walton-on- Thames__________
Headington_________________Walworth___________________
Heath Hayes________________Wandsworth_________________
Hendon_____________________Wantage____________________
Hengoed____________________Waterlooville______________
Herne Bay__________________Wembley____________________
Heswall____________________West Drayton_______________
High Wycombe_______________West Kensington____________
Hitchin____________________West Malling_______________
Holmer Green_______________West Wickham_______________
Horley_____________________Weston Favel_______________
Horsham____________________Whitefield_________________
Hounslow___________________Wickford___________________
Hulme Hall_________________Willesden__________________
Huntingdon_________________Winchester_________________
Ilford Central_____________Winchmore Hill_____________
Ilford North_______________Windsor____________________
Ingleby Barwick____________Winkfield Row______________
Isleworth__________________Winsford, Cheshire_________
Kensal Green_______________Woking_____________________
Kentish Town_______________Wolverton__________________
Kenton Road________________Woodley, Berkshire_________
Kidbrooke__________________Worcester Park_____________
Kingsbury__________________Worcester St.johns_________
Kingsland Green____________Worcester St.peters________
Kingston___________________Worcester__________________
Kneller Hall_______________Yateley____________________
Knowle_____________________Yaxley_____________________
Lancaster__________________York_______________________
Leamington Spa_____________
There’s poetry in them there exchanges!
Not so when your town/village etc isnt on the bloody list! lol
Well mine isn’t either even though BT asked me which exchanges they should do next 🙂
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no bermondsey still. 0207, but treated like it’s the middle of nowhere.
I feel your pain gd
Still no sign of my exchange either – Easington
Smack bang in the middle of two major cities/towns (Sunderland & Hartlepool) and 2 mile away from a town which does have LLU (Peterlee) and yet we’re still treated like middle of nowhere as well.
Moving house tomorrow and having to resort to a ADSLMax ISP costing twice as much as Sky’s unlimited offer was going to *sigh* 🙁
Whats the difference between phases ‘4b’ and ‘5’?
Do we know which exchanges are in 4b and which are in 5 ?
Sunil – I’ve checked and don’t have a separate breakdown – will ask BT & report back
Thanks – it, would be interesting to know.
Any one know when they will be doing warrington I’m not in a cable area 🙁
It isn’t on the list yet John so no time soon I’m afraid. I know it won’t be any comfort whatsoever but Liverpol isn’t even on the list. I’d write to your MP if I were you complaining.
Anyone know where I can find a rollout update in BT land?
I really want to order some sort of broadband here in the Hambleden valley and I know Henley has been on the list of exchanges to be upgraded this summer.
I’l check it out for you on Monday Pete
any idea when phase 6 and beyond will be announced?
fingers crossed bermondsey is on it this time.
I feel the same about Lincoln 🙂 Though half of me says I’d prefer to go straight to Fibre to the Premises at 100Meg down
I live in Southampton, run off the Moorehill Exchange. All the surrounding area’s (Eastleigh, Chandlers Ford, Fair oak, Totton – all outer suburbs of Southampton) have dates, but none what so ever in Southampton. I want to get off Virgin’s broken net work as soon as possible. Any one know when the next batch of exchanges are going to be announced?
I’m going to be updating the data over the next week or so – it is mainly just schedule updates however but I will check up specifically on Southampton for you
Hi Tref, few questions which I hope you can help with. My exchange (Hardingstone) has still not been announced in any plans for the BT fibre rollout. Are you aware of any updates on this situation? I understand phase 6 will be released in the coming weeks, is this true, and if so have you any specific dates? I don’t know much about fibre etc, but I was wondering if you were aware of any pattern in the rollouts i.e. by homes served for example. Hardingstone serves around 19,000 properties so it’s not a small area by any means (as far as I am aware). Also I have read something about Communication providers being able to nominate a list of 6 exchanges for Phase 7. What exactly does this mean? By communication providers, I suppose this means BE, Talktalk, Sky etc, in which case will these nominations have advantages for any particular exchanges, for example areas where these providers have the highest number of customers. Sorry for all the questions but I really hope you can help, or anybody else on this forum! I am sick of the lousy speeds I am getting, in comparison to place that now have up to 40MB. Grrr! Thanks very much in advance.
And finally… I am around 3 miles away from the exchange at the moment, and I know that broadband speed is proportional to distance from exchange at the moment, but will this be the case for fibre, or will all properties within a particular exchange be able to achieve the same speeds? Thinking of moving 2.9 miles down the road. Thanks, Mark
Mark
I have been promising to update the list & schedule for some time so I will do it tomorrow. I’ll also give BT a call to check on what you are saying re next phases.
They do ask Comms Providers (Timico is one of them) for lists of exchanges we would like them to enable. I always say my home town of Lincoln and they never seem to listen!
That said I will also ask about that 6 exchanges and the due date for the next phases and get back to you here.
As far as distance from the exchange goes it is the distance from the cabinet that matters. The connection between the cabinet and the exchange is 1Gbps fibre with no line loss.
However the link between the cabinet and your house is copper which does cause performance deteriation with line length. During the trials the average speed seen was around 25Mbps if my memory serves me. With more connections now there will probably be better data so I will also check up on that in the morning.
So you need to find a house near a cabinet not near the exchange 🙂
Right Mark I’ve updated the exchange availability dates (find it here http://www.trefor.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/exchanges.htm). There are 46 more exchanges than in my previous list which was from April. Unfortunately yours is not on it. I have put in a call to our BT Wholesale technical account manager and whilst he has not yet heard of phases 6 and beyond being announced he will ask the FTTC product manager.
The next update is due in November – on the basis that they seem to be published quarterly. I’ll specifically look out for that and post it as soon as I see it.
Don’t expect fast moving changes here though. Openreach, which is the organisation putting the network in, is a slow moving giant.
My guess is that new exchange announcements, as opposed to just schedule updates (ie which exchanges have slipped) will probably be accompanied by a huge BT fanfare declaring to us all how much more money they are putting into fibre Next Generation Access.
Tref, thanks a lot for the information… OK well when you propose your home town of Lincoln, don’t forget to make Hardingstone another one of your choices 😉 Well 25Mb is a damn sight better than the 2.5Mb I am getting at the moment! Hmmmm, 4 cabinets I assume evenly spread out across the exchange, or is there some sort of pattern? Either way I would hope that I get closer than 3 miles to one of the cabinets, which is where I am at now! I REALLY hope Hardingstone is on the agenda for this rollout! I feel desperately sorry for those that won’t be, and I just hope it isn’t me! Would be great if you could get back to me (by email if possible) to let me know what the FTTC product manager has to say? Thanks, Mark
New update – Phase 6 details are due Oct 2010, with Phase 7 likely to be Q1 next fiscal – ie April/May/June 2011.
There was a consultation call last week with BTWholesale to obtain input from CPs regarding identifying 6 exchanges to propose back to Openreach as to where fibre should be delivered to. This was restricted to eligible ISP’s, that have supported us with FTTC trials and rollout. This call included an invite to CP’s to influence the rollout up to 6 exchanges.
Unfortunatley whilst eligible I missed it hence not knowing about the next Phase. I think I must have been out racing pigeons! I do have more detailed exchange v cabinet info but I’m not sure it is of any use – the cabinets are numbered but don’t cross refer to postcodes/streets. I’ll see what I can do.
News just in – Openreach are potentially going to announce the next phase (Phase 6) of the FTTC rollout at their regular Trialist Working Group (TWG) which just happens to be Wednesday next week.
If this is the case then I will probably find out on Thursday afternoon. You heard it first on trefor.net (don’t get too excited though – bird in the hand and all that)
Tref, been doing a bit more research, and is there absolutely no way I could get fibre optic at my property when BT have not laid down the foundations. I have read something about FTTH (fibre to the home as I am sure you know), but I assume this technology is ridiculously expensive. Is there no way around having to wait for this Openreach rollout?
Not easily Mark. Businesses put fibre in but it costs thousands of pounds up front – usually the digging the roads cost.
If you are in an FTTC area but you are not fed from a cabinet then BT will be providing FTTP next year sometime. This will run either through a duct to your premises or more likely on the overhead cable via a pole.
If you have a pal somewhere that does have fibre or FTTC then you might be able to set up a fixed wireless link between you and him and then share his connection. This would involved set up costs but it is what the farm in Yorkshire did where we released the pigeons last week. That farm had a wireless link to a village two miles away – albeit with a very slow ADSL at the other end of the link.
Hmm, it’s all very interesting stuff.. I am just very worried that over the 60% of households that will be covered with FTTC by 2015, mine won’t be one of them! How many thousands of pounds would you think we are talking about? Are there any companies in particular that specialise in such work and could provide a quote? I do have LLU enabled at my exchange, but from what I have read that won’t make a difference to my speed as I am still quite far away from the exchange. Is this correct? Are there any other options. Thanks very much for your help.
Your link (http://www.trefor.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/exchanges.htm) in noted dated “Thursday, 23 September, 2010 at 2:15 pm” returns an Error 404. Can you resolve this?
come on BT, announce bermondsey in phase 6, you know you want to.
Bermondsey is in!
praise jebus!!!
I’m in Daventry and have had terrible ADSL for years despite living on a new estate (sub 10 years). Good news is that our exchange now has a RFS date of Mar 2011, but how do I find out if our estate is one planned to be upgraded – Lang Farm – (I don’t think I could bear it if it wasn’t!) – I’d sign up today at almost any cost if it became available – Now wishing the months away. Tim.
Tim
If you let me have your postcode I’ll see if I can find out – I’ll send you a separate email so that you can reply in private.
Tref
Hi tref
would you be ever so kind and find out when south shields is due to be updated please matey my postcode is ne34 8de
cheers mate
ok bucky – see what I can do