FTTC Cabinet Location Havant P8

Our FTTC has been delayed a number of times and currently has an availability date of June 2013.
A quick check with our postcode on http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/ indicates that HAVANT cabinet P8 is along this path. However I have walked up and down this path lots of times and the FTTC cabinet is not there. There are also no regular cabinets along this path. This subject has definitely got me interested and I have been scouting round the area general area and found other cabinets, but not this one.
To add to this, when we had our phone line installed 3 years ago the BT Engineer spent hours trying to find out where our cabinet was.
Does anyone have any idea where this P8 cabinet actually is?
Brief History of FTTC Activity
In 2012, up the Langstone Road near the junction with Langbrook Close, the yellow markings were made beside an existing cabinet and shortly afterwards a new FTTC cabinet was installed. Even today this cabinet does not appear to be ‘humming’ so I don’t think anything has been installed in it yet. Also neither cabinet has any markings on them whatsoever.
In Feb a few engineers appeared directly outside our house and were pulling the fibre cable in the underground ducts from Hayling Island up the road towards Havant.
In April 3 BT Openreach Vans were parked outside and they said that "the wrong sort of fibre" had been pulled through. They said it was FTTP rather than FTTC and therefore a different team would have to come out and terminate it. However they also said their time was not wasted as they were about to go around the area and scout out the cabinets.
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AS promised, here are the photos of the P8 Cabinet. You can see the new FTTC cabinet in the background across the junction.
And here is the FTTC cabinet with the P8 in the background.
Closeup of the P8 cabinet with the new ident on it.
And finally a close up of the P8 ident.
So now the cabinet has been identified I had a quick listen to the P8 FTTC cabinet and this is silent which would seem to indicate that either there is no kit in it or the kit is not turned on.
Any idea if this is likely to happen in June 2013 or is it going to be delayed?

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imjolly wrote:
if you look at label it shows small cabinet 256L but is that not just 128 customers?
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ECI cabs have more than 128 ports. I think they can hold 6 fibre cards, each card supports something like 48 ports but they always have to leave 5 spare on each card for some reason.
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