New cabinet in Wansford

Excitement ! A new street cabinet (PCP) has been installed in Wansford very close to the telephone exchange. This will be to provide an intercept point for lines currently fed direct from the exchange, thereby enabling connection to a Superfast (FTTC) broadband cabinet which is yet to appear.

The new cabinet on Old North Road is shown in the first photo below. The second photo (I need to try harder with that one) shows the new FTTC cabinet installed in Nassington which will be fed from the Wansford exchange. So we are going to see speeds up to 80 Mbit/s becoming available soon in our area.

Meanwhile, Kingscliffe and Apethorpe are edging towards a full Fibre to the Home (FTTH) service offering symmetrical speeds up to 1 Gbit/s. The area has been split in two as the new Persimmon estate is apparently off-limits for digging for 12 months and Persimmon are declining to engage with Gigaclear. The "old village" and Apethorpe are 80% of the way to the required minimum connections, the area including the new build is floundering at 30%.