Bit of Advice about FTTC cabinets

Hi all,
In my village we have all had FTTC cabinets installed, which is great however every cabinet has been powerd on and is accepting orders apart from the one that serves my property, it is cabinet no 19 and my post code is SG8 5JX.
I checked the BT wholesale checker and still tells me can only get up to 1.5 meg.
Anyone have any idea why it taking so long to switch on one cabinet or any more information on when it be turned on
Thanks
Paul D

most likely reason is that all testing openreach do before the cab goes live has not yet been completed just a matter of waiting the wholesale checker will advise you of the date your cab should go live all you can do is keep checking
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