Well my street has just been done. The new cabinets at the start of the street are in the attached picture and are to the left of an old BT (?) one. The bigger one in the middle looks different to the designs already shared in the thread. The contractors (O'Connor's) seem very professional. They are clearly very grateful to get the contract to do the surrounding Cardiff neighbourhoods in the next fortnight or so. They said Swansea will follow soon. As to Go Live they didn't know (the foreman (?) said not too far off and definitely by the end of the year). I assume VM will be in touch when it is live but I remain really unclear how/when existing coax customers in an upgraded area like me get switched over to Xgs-pon (and whether OR FTTP might still pip them to the post).
Some coaxial cables are over 30 years old and still working well, and as the migration to XGS-PON will not be completed until about 2040, then there will be some coax around until then.
VM's a bit hamstrung in that only broadband customers can use XGS-PON now as there is no recordable IP box available yet for TV subscribers.
XGS-PON is separate to the existing two networks.
Well it seems some sort of (presumably pretty expensive) mistake was made. The mysterious middle cabinet has now gone awol and a big hole has been dug again.
How odd, it would be good if you could post more photos of what's happening.
Some serious civils and cable pulling going on around me. Two "yellow coffin" chambers (previously mentioned elsewhere on these forums somewhere) have been installed across the road with a new grey cabinet.
The middle cabinet on my side is back in place. It seems that a new posh brick-lined chamber has now been installed which presumably will soon have its own yellow coffin cover (but not before the incoming storm sadly). Why yellow though and not a nice unobtrusive olive green?
I think the colour is deliberately yellow to warn people of the presence of the coffins.
Well one of the two "yellow coffins" has since been replaced by a 5-6 foot tall ugly gravestone slab of a cabinet which I think is the "mother unit" for the estate. The guy from Sims Networks who was twiddling with the wires inside said that Go Live is months away as the head end (?) has yet to be done (I am aware of the backend billing issues with this stuff too).
