Back in January I noticed that our local broadband was being upgraded to fibre. When I checked on the Openreach website the status was listed as in Build, where the fibres are laid under the street from exchange to cabinet. This is noted as taking around 5 months to complete. Checking again this evening, the status is still in Build. Given that the fibres still need to be connected to the cabinet, and the exchange activated, I suspect it is going to be a long, long time before we reach the promised land of superfast broadband.
(Edit on 5-Sep-2017: I've been checking other cabinets in Ironbridge, and discovered that cabinets 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8, which cover Coalbrookdale and the centre of Ironbridge up to Hodge Bower, are already hooked up and people can place orders for fibre broadband. Also the Broseley exchange, just the other side of the river, is fibre enabled and cabinet 3 serving Coalford is active. Looks like Ironbridge's cabinet 2 is last on their list.)
(Edit on 5-Oct-2017: Whilst walking near the Ironbridge I chatted to two Openreach technicians working on cabinet 7, and asked if the recent roadworks near cabinet 2 were to do with the fibre upgrade, which they confirmed they were. So a search on the Openreach postcode checker reveals that cabinet 2 is now in the Activate stage. Only a month (or so) to go until they start taking orders!)
(Edit on 5-Oct-2017: Whilst walking near the Ironbridge I chatted to two Openreach technicians working on cabinet 7, and asked if the recent roadworks near cabinet 2 were to do with the fibre upgrade, which they confirmed they were. So a search on the Openreach postcode checker reveals that cabinet 2 is now in the Activate stage. Only a month (or so) to go until they start taking orders!)
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