Anyone noticed these SuperSize BT Cabinets appearing?

I walked down Sutton on Sea High Street today and nearly collided with a blockage on the pavement! It was half taken up with one of these new BT Cabinets - designed to give you FTTC. Fibre to the Cabinet. Yes a vast improvement on old wired Broadband speeds but blocking the Pavement! Well actually took up a good half a pavement.

Bad for the visually impaired or buggy/wheelchair users. How do they get away with it? Obstructing the pavements? If shopkeepers put signs out they get told off by Councils for blocking the pavements - one rule for one.........

The old cabinets were slim and discreet not these ones on STEROIDS.

Can't they find "off road" places to put them there's enough street furniture to negotiate.

Oh, and if BT get O2 does that mean they'll soon be biting at TalkTalk?