Hello All, new member here, just found this forum/thread and have read the last 5 or 6 pages.
I'm in a very frustrating position where I'm being price gouged by Virgin Media but have no other high speed options available, at the moment.....
I live in Bush Hill Park EN1 and am paying VM £45.25 for 130M coax cable, price was raised from £38.25 back in May.
Over the Christmas and January period we had the Open Infra people calling at the door getting interest in there new rollout of 1Gig fibre(900mb) at very reasonable price - it ended up being £30/month for three years contract.... if and when it finally arrived.
This was to me a great deal as it is not only cheaper and faster but symmetrical upload, and I sometimes have to transfer very large amounts of data (~50-100GB of video files) which is a non starter with my current 20M upload! (alternative methods used).
I signed up straight away!
Open Infra needed 40% uptake in the area and, other than an improved offer with a longer term, there hasn't been any more info/contact from them.
Having read this thread and seen that there is fibre construction going on in the general Enfield area I thought I'd contact Open Infra and see what time scale there was, if any.
Reply came this morning...
"Unfortunately we have not yet received the required percentage of interest (40%) in your area. A building decision is sent out to all signed up customers once enough interest is reached. The ambition timeline of network completion is 6 - 9 Months after the building decision is received."
So nothing happening in the near future there!
As this thread discusses, Community Fibre is coming to the area (as their website says), but when.....!
VM are offering the same speed as I currently have for effectively £28.50/month, but for 24 months contract, and even cheaper on Money Saving Expert website - effectively £21.78/m with a bill credit, 18m contract! (All this is for New Customers)
I'm sure a bit of haggling with retentions could get me near or better than these deals, but for how long a contract......
It's looking like Fibre isn't going to available where I live for at least 6-12 months, at a guess, ...... but trying to save money with Virgin will possibly cost me in the long run if I'm stuck for an extra year (albeit with a functioning, reasonably fast broadband service).
Apologies for the long rant as a first post!!
Hopefully some better news in the next 6 months....????
Cheers, neil