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when will fibre to the cabinet cease

Spees — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:58:20 GMT

What is the BT plan for ceasing fibre to the cabinet after a district is fully fibre to the premises?

Re: when will fibre to the cabinet cease

shakey1981 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:13:19 GMT

wont be for ages yet must be wuld rather pushed to FTTP when they have to be moved as prices maybe cheaper when this happeens

Re: when will fibre to the cabinet cease

WSH — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:27:58 GMT

Rumour has it, sometime between 2035 and 2040.

You might get a better idea by entering your exchange name here and then clicking "Lookup Locality".

https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm

Click the exchange link and then bottom right of the info panel will give you an idea of what the exchange is doing. Full fibre generally comes from a different location.

(And it's Openreach not BT, by the way).

Re: when will fibre to the cabinet cease

iniltous — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:03:08 GMT

Physically removing the FTTC infrastructure once an area is completely covered with FTTP isn’t a priority, and even if an area achieves 75% FTTP penetration, so no new copper based orders can be raised , there will be some existing FTTC customers that are reluctant to move to FTTP so the FTTC ‘cabinets’ etc will be in place for a long time .
Any reason for asking , if you are concerned that FTTC will be removed before everyone has FTTP fitted , that’s not going to happen, eventually there may be a day when refuseniks who won’t take FTTP when it’s available and are holding up copper cable recovery (and FTTC cessation) may be cut off , but that’s many years away , potentially decades away .