<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 26 Jul 2013, at 5:43PM, Christopher Hunter wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 14:00 +0100, John Winters wrote:<blockquote type="cite">Could this possibly be the long-awaited FTTC upgrade? They upgraded our <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">exchange a year ago, but didn't bother to do the cabinets, so although <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">our exchange appears on the list of those with FTTC available, you can't <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">actually order it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anyone know whether this is what an FTTC upgrade looks like?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John<br></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007427"><br></font>On our street (an early test site for FTTC), they completely replaced<br>the cabinets. The new ones are very shiny deep green and have audible<br>fans. The vents are around the back, rather than in the doors, but yours<br>could be some kind of retro-fit upgrade.<br><br>The other possibility is that it's a new cell site - the MNOs are<br>putting in endless "micro cells" to fill in all the little service<br>holes. You may find that there's an adjacent grey pole that flares at<br>the top which is usually installed at the same time as the micro site.<br><br>C.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>BT Openreach associate here (Openreach managed all of BT's cables and infrastructure)</div><div>If you can post/link a photo of the upgraded box, I can try and find it in the system and tell you exactly what work has been done.</div><div>Chances are, if it has fans, it's got the FTTC equipment inside. Another telltale sign is the 240v warning sticker on a separate door on the left side of the box.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Jacob Mansfield</div></body></html>