On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:01:54 +0000, John Rumm wrote:

But there's a lot of loops of fibre dangling from damn near every
phone pole around here - so FTTP it'll be, and soon...

Where is that then? Kingston Communications patch?

No, the Welsh borders. No cabinets anywhere, just 200-odd homes
connected directly to our local exchange (a brick shed in a field of
sheep), spreading for a 3-4 mile radius in each direction, with the
wiring not exactly wandering in straight lines.

Cheaper and easier to do FTTP than a ****load of cabinets, each serving
a couple of houses via a mile of copper for each.

It will be interesting to see if they start to use that approach for
other rural locations which don't have cabinets, and what the break even
point is for number of dwellings in a location to make a cabinet pay...

Here for example there are approx 12 properties stretched along 300m of
road - so one cabinet could serve them all, although at the moment they
are all wired back to the exchange over 5000m away.

Do you have a scheme along these lines?
http://www.fastershire.com/