Openreach’s 330Mbps FTTP Special Offer to UK ISPs Extended Again

Broadband ISPs that have taken Openreach’s (BT) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based 330Mbps (50Mbps upload) product at wholesale will be pleased to learn that the operator has extended their existing rental discount by six months until 30th September 2019, but not all providers will pass the savings on to end-users.

The 330/50 FTTP tier was originally introduced to match the top headline speed of the operator’s new hybrid fibre G.fast product and in October 2017 it was supported by a significant discount (here), which was only supposed to last for 12 months. Happily the discount was extended last year for another six months until 31st March 2019 (here) and they’ve just done the same again (here). (NOTE: FVA = Fibre Voice Access | PM = Per Month).

As usual the above costs reflect what Openreach charges ISPs at wholesale and thus ISPs will of course still need to add their own costs for service delivery like VAT (20%), profit margins, data capacity and other bits in order to create the retail product that people go out and buy. Some ISPs offer their 330Mbps FTTP and G.fast tiers at a similar pricing level, which is no doubt supported by the above promotion.

The caveat here is that different ISPs adopt different models and not all will pass the savings on to consumers. Several ISPs offer FTTP services via Openreach’s national UK network including, for example, BT, Zen Internet, Freeola, Cerberus Networks, iDNET and AAISP etc.