hi,

I live in a semi-rural(4km from Hamilton city boundary) area with a DSL cabinet 400m up the road. This is an ADSL1 cabinet that appears to only provide BUBA services to ISP's. The chorus map shows my area as RBI only with no UFB planned. All cabinets close by had VDSL capability added 6-12 mths ago. My current connection with VF is useless during busy periods. No 4G RBI available. No wireless options due to trees. Other ISPs wont provide copper services as no EUBA. A developer just paid $100k to have chorus run fibre from this cabinet past my house about 2km to service 25-30 new sections.

How do i find out what is planned for this cabinet, and whether the new fibre will have retail services available for other residents on the road? I have no issue waiting, but having some indication of when or if ever services will be improved, or why this particular cabinet has not been upgraded would be helpful.

How is private funded rural fibre treated with respect to retail services?

Would appreciate if anyone could offer any helpful information, or is it just a case of welcome to chorus's crap world, and be happy you get your 32kb/s?

cheers
Dave

ps. i am new and this is my first post.