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Not much seems to have happened over the past few months with FTTC:
- BT Openreach continue to rollout of exchange/cabinet upgrades as per their schedule
- Plus.net are still in trail mode and you can not order a FTTC service straight from the customer support team (you can however still get on their trail once out are an account holder)
- Sky still don’t seem to have their trail up and running as yet; months behind their advised dates
BT Infinity did however create a site called Race to Infinity that allowed people to register their interest for their local exchange to be considered for an update to FTTC. The first results of this having been announce just a week or so ago. Whitchurch was one of 6 lucky places to be added to the release schedule. The complete list of locations being:
- Whitchurch, Hampshire
- Baschurch, Shropshire
- Blewbury, Oxfordshire
- Caxton, Cambridgeshire
- Innerleithen, Scottish Borders
- Madingley, Cambridgeshire
Winning the race to infinity means that, subject to availability the winning exchanges will be enabled early in 2012.
Good news is that I can one add Whitchurch to my Rightmove search list for future house location. Like so many advancements in Internet connection speed, I don’t think that I could face the a decrease in connection speed now that I am so used to 40Mb down and 10Mb up. 
I did try registering my Dad’s phone number as being interested in getting FTTC but being on a small exchange, it did not even meet the minimum number of connections requirement of 1000 residential subscribers. Now chance of me getting them up and running on a HiDef videoconferencing solution yet then! 