Full Fibre ISP Ogi Scraps Price Hikes Until At Least March 2024
Network builder and ISP Ogi, which is investing £200m to deploy a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across 150,000 premises in rural parts of Wales by 2025, has today made the business decision to “buck the industry trend” by not increasing prices for customers this year.
The provider, which already reduced its overall package prices by 10% in response to the cost-of-living last year, is now “guaranteeing no new service price rises” – for both new and existing home customers – until the next review in 2024 (March).
At the same time, they’re also continuing to offer 6-months of free service to new home-users. Given the high level of current inflation (CPI/RPI), any decision not to increase prices is effectively a real-terms price cut in this market.
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Chief Executive Officer, Ben Allwright, said:
“It’s not a decision taken lightly; as a business we continue to feel the pressures of rising energy and staffing costs, as well as the rising prices of raw materials throughout our supply chain. But this is about doing what we think is right for our customers and – in the long run – what is right for our growing business.
As a critical utility provider, we’re proud to be in a position to support Welsh customers in this way, bringing a world-class service that has the potential to make a big difference to people at home and at work.”
Excluding the free period, customers of the service can expect to pay from £30 per month for an unlimited service with downloads of 150Mbps (15Mbps upload), free installation (usually £60) and an included wireless router on a 24-month term, which rises to £60 for their top 900Mbps (90Mbps upload) plan. Ogi’s fastest plans also include Amazon Eero’s (two units) WiFi mesh system.
The provider, which has so far covered 42,000 premises (up from 23,000 in June 2022), has already connected premises across a number of locations since their rollout started last year (here and here) – including around Haverfordwest, Rhoose, Llantwit Major, St Athan, Abergavenny and many more (see below for a full list).
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Won’t be the current CxO’s problem in March 2024, by then InfraCapital will have gone the same route as Fern and have merged the backends of Ogi, Gigaclear, Fibrus and WightFibre.
OGI are coming to my area. I am not sure if they are just the ISP or if they are laying the cable. If the infrastructure is installed by Netonmnia – and is open to you fibre – then OGI will need to do more than cap prices.
You Fibre supply 1 Gig for 29:99 compared to Ogi charging double that.
If this is one of their primary build towns then Ogi will be laying their own cables/infra too, mix of their own ducts and PIA.
Given the choice between Netonmia/Youfibre and Ogi, I’d pick Youfibre. The Ogi packages are not symmetrical e.g Ogi is 900down 90up, when Youfibre is 900down and up.
This’ll be due to Ogi don’t wanting to undermine their historic Spectrum business customers and continue to sell them premium products. In reality they should sell off that part of the business and focus where it matters with the residential build.
Anon, Ogi offer symmetric packages too.
So what you state there is incorrect.
You’d be lucky to get Netomnia/Youfibre anyway, they heavily cherry pick all the easy areas to roll out in.
@daibonehead
Ogi roll out their own fibre but will cover a lot more of a town than Netomnia will.
Netomnia will only build their fibre in Openreach green PIA, and only roll out to your street if it doesn’t mean doing any digging up. If it’s direct bury – forget it.
@Dee.jay
Not a fair comparison as the Youfibre residential packages are symmetrical, but Ogi’s are not. Only the Ogi business products offer the same up/down.
Strange as the other Infracapital businesses; Gigaclear and Wightfibre residential products are symmetrical by default.
@anon – Ogi are currently deploying in our area, so I spoke to them about a symmetrical connection (as upload is almost more important to me than download). They offer it on their residential packages for an additional ~£10pm. Separate to your 24m contract, this option is done on a monthly basis, so you can switch it on/off month-to-month, as needed.
Still, YouFibre – who are also deploying nearby – charge £29pm for ~920Mbps symmetric connection. When compared to Ogi, including the cost for symmetric upload, it would be £70pm. Certainly not cheap.
Yes but you have to remember – Ogi are building our whole towns. Netomnia are out building anything outside of what they can stuff into a Green PIA duct. Netomnia availability is around the corner for me, literally a few streets away. My house is all direct bury copper so Netomnia won’t touch it. If you can get it then lucky you.
Good grief, thank you autocorrect.
Ogi are building out whole tonws.
Netomnia are *not* building anything outside… etc etc