Fibre Broadband - Nocton

Current alternatives won’t light up Britain’s broadband blackspots

'Despite the British government’s boasts of the steady roll-out of superfast broadband to more than four out of five homes and businesses, you needn’t be a statistician to realise that this means one out of five are still unconnected.'

http://theconversation.com/current-alternatives-wont-light-up-britains-broadband-blackspots-46231

Last couple of blog posts on this topic

You may remember the previous posts about the roll-out of Superfast Broadband to Nocton:

http://www.nocton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/superfast-broadband-really.html

http://www.nocton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/superfast-broadband-update.html

Latest Update from OnLincolnshire

From: Geoff Hall [mailto:milservuk@hotmail.co.uk]
Sent: 17 August 2015 18:50
To: Stephen Brookes
Subject: Nocton - Fibre Broadband

Hi Steve,

I wonder whether you have seen the Chief Executive of BT Openreach defending his company position on the fibre rollout:

BT Openreach defends broadband rollout - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33957405

I have appreciated your involvement in trying to release more information - in your last email to me dated 28 May 2015, you stated: “… we would potentially amalgamate the smaller cabinet (Pillar 3/2) into a new, larger cabinet which would be fibre enabled.”

What is the current position for Nocton now we are some 3 months further into the year, especially for those postcodes LN4 2BA; 2BB; 2BH; 2BJ; 2BN; 2BP; 2BS; 2BT; 2BW; 2BX; 2BZ; 2DA; 2DB not yet having access to fibre broadband e.g. has the change request for Cab 3/2 been agreed yet and if so, in which Phase (plus dates) will this fall to?

Many thanks,
Geoff

From: Stephen Brookes [mailto:Stephen.Brookes@lincolnshire.gov.uk]
Sent: 19 August 2015 13:53
To: Geoff Hall <milservuk@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Nocton - Fibre Broadband

Good Afternoon Geoff

The Change Request is in with BT and we are still awaiting the planning and costings etc. to come from BT and hope to have them by the end of September at the latest. Assuming there are no horrible surprises in their planning, we will then determine a deployment slot and announce accordingly.

Because this work is additional work over and above the deployment plan, we will look to complete it as soon as we are able and will get a better picture when we see what the plans look like.

We will update the website as soon as we get further detail.

Regards
Steve

Steve Brookes
Lincolnshire Broadband Programme Manager
Tel. 01522 552450
Mob. 07825 043978