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Is this an FTTC cabinet?

Openreach recently installed it beside a road on the edge of a field.

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Is it anywhere near a second similar looking cabinet? VDSL cabinets have to go very close to the existing telephone cabinets.
 
It doesn't look like one to me.

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Whilst the photo Lee posted is what most would recognise, I have seen various different-looking ones, though not one like this. Hence my curiosity.

It's about 750m from the existing cabinet which serves both part of Little Walsingham and the (2km away) village of Wighton, between the two. My father's located in Wighton and connected to cabinet 1 (the one mentioned), which is due to be upgraded shortly. However as Wighton is 2km away, I suspect it's unlikely that FTTc would be available without a new cabinet. Better Broadband For Norfolk (BDUK) don't know anything about a new cabinet, and Openreach are completely opaque, but a lot of roadworks and duct clearing has been going on both around Wighton and between Little Walsingham (where the exchange is located) and Wighton. I thought perhaps this was either a new cabinet to serve Wighton, or electrics to serve a cabinet sceduled to go in. All the work and this box appearing don't really make any sense if there isn't to be a new cabinet.
 
I am 99.9% sure it isn't a FTTC cab, it has no cooling and the lock isn't the same, the new cabs for FTTC have a lot of valuable equipment in.
 
I am 99.9% sure it isn't a FTTC cab, it has no cooling and the lock isn't the same, the new cabs for FTTC have a lot of valuable equipment in.

A Better Broadband for Norfolk representative told me that it was part of the works being undertaken to put new fibre optic cable in to serve the new FTTc cabinets in Walsingham itself. That makes no sense to me ... why would there be some kind of service cabinet nearly a kilometre from the closest of those new FTTc cabinets, even if it is along a route where new fibre is being dug. An access in a field?
 
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Interesting, it certainly doesn't look like any Openreach FTTC cabinet that I've seen before. In fact it has more in common with some of the ones that Virgin Media have planted around the country, but it's different to those ones too. Is it near to any houses? From the picture it looks quite distant from any community but we can only see part of it (FTTC is normally put as near as possible to homes).

I wonder if it's a new mini cabinet for smaller areas with lots of EOLs, either that or perhaps it's covering an NGA aggregation node. Another option is an SLU cabinet, but usually rivals install those.
 
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