Craigw
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I was eager to get a price for install as I live 1 mile from the newly installed fibre cabinet and since getting our BT line reconnected (had a microwave link for 18 months) it’s been nothing but fault after fault for the last 4 months, we’ve seen 20+ engineers and we are now on our second cable dig on a nice 500m run of direct in ground aluminium 5 pair. Our run to the main road (prob 3/4 mile) has been nothing but repeated faults over the last 8 years and Openreach engineers have repeatedly said its knackered but there is no way Openreach will replace it (its unducted) which means it’s just constantly patched up only to fault again weeks later.
So FTTPoD was looking more attractive even with the old pricing install estimate at 5.5k gulp! now just before the old pricing scheme ran out the FTTPoD availability disappeared from out cabinet so I was stuck not being able to move forward, it took a good few weeks before an ISP got this option enabled back on our cabinet via their Openreach account manager but by this time we were on the new pricing scheme.
The new Openreach pricing for FTTPoD looked better at first with a 1 year contract and lower monthly fees! Now I think everyone was expecting the new install to be higher to claw some of the reduced cost back but WOW! My new install price is “In excess of” £39000!!! And that’s subject to a site survey which could add extra build costs!
Anyone else had any experience of the new FTTPoD pricing?
So FTTPoD was looking more attractive even with the old pricing install estimate at 5.5k gulp! now just before the old pricing scheme ran out the FTTPoD availability disappeared from out cabinet so I was stuck not being able to move forward, it took a good few weeks before an ISP got this option enabled back on our cabinet via their Openreach account manager but by this time we were on the new pricing scheme.
The new Openreach pricing for FTTPoD looked better at first with a 1 year contract and lower monthly fees! Now I think everyone was expecting the new install to be higher to claw some of the reduced cost back but WOW! My new install price is “In excess of” £39000!!! And that’s subject to a site survey which could add extra build costs!
Anyone else had any experience of the new FTTPoD pricing?























