ntruby
Casual Member
Hi
I'm running a Community Fibre Partnership for a small village in Somerset.
(I've found Mark8000's post in July 2000 an invaluable help btw!)
We attracted 45 properties in our initial pass. Openreach has given us an indicative price of £73,000 for FTTP to these, or about £1,600 each. We have a few businesses in our 45 so at best would raise £85,000 in voucher subsidy.
All good then, but not much contingency!
We're at the point now where the Openreach lady wants to confirm our addresses. So ... there are perhaps half-a-dozen new builds currently empty but where new people are soon moving in. Should we take a chance and include these in our confirmed list? On the one hand the downside seems small: if (say) 3 of the 6 decide not to commit we've still got 3 x £1,500 = £4,500 in vouchers more than we would have had.
That decision all hinges in what the incremental cost from Openreach is in adding each new house. I am assuming that the £73,000 is now pretty static, and that the cost to them of adding a couple of extra homes close to ones already in the programme is relative buttons, which means it's likely worth including houses we're not 100% certain on.
But that IS just an assumption. Does anyone have any real-world experience and advice please?
Thanks
N
I'm running a Community Fibre Partnership for a small village in Somerset.
(I've found Mark8000's post in July 2000 an invaluable help btw!)
We attracted 45 properties in our initial pass. Openreach has given us an indicative price of £73,000 for FTTP to these, or about £1,600 each. We have a few businesses in our 45 so at best would raise £85,000 in voucher subsidy.
All good then, but not much contingency!
We're at the point now where the Openreach lady wants to confirm our addresses. So ... there are perhaps half-a-dozen new builds currently empty but where new people are soon moving in. Should we take a chance and include these in our confirmed list? On the one hand the downside seems small: if (say) 3 of the 6 decide not to commit we've still got 3 x £1,500 = £4,500 in vouchers more than we would have had.
That decision all hinges in what the incremental cost from Openreach is in adding each new house. I am assuming that the £73,000 is now pretty static, and that the cost to them of adding a couple of extra homes close to ones already in the programme is relative buttons, which means it's likely worth including houses we're not 100% certain on.
But that IS just an assumption. Does anyone have any real-world experience and advice please?
Thanks
N























