Rutland better value than BT

It's a good job there are alternatives to BT.

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Erbistock villagers quoted £550,000 for broadband link

Villagers have been told it would cost them £550,000 to be provided with a broadband internet connection.

British Telecom's estimate included installing the infrastructure necessary to provide the broadband link for 80 households in Erbistock, near Wrexham.

But the residents have since been given a £50,000 estimate by another firm, Rutland Telecom, and they hope to be online by October...

It'd be very interesting to know why there's such a disparity. Either the Rutland solution is not as good or else..who knows? I can imagine that BT's costs are higher but that's a helluva difference. If anything it sounds like a 'go away' type quotation.

It would.

80 households doesn't sound a lot. I wonder if that could be serviced from one FTTC cabinet.

In reply to a post by john2007:

It would.

80 households doesn't sound a lot. I wonder if that could be serviced from one FTTC cabinet.

Well a BT FTTC cabinet can have 288 connections.

I would guess the BT solution involved upgrading/replacing/re-routing the main copper cable from the exchange to the cabinet.
I dont suppose the ecconomics of Openreach FTTC program would make it viable to upgrade just the one cabinet to FTTC , so small players like Rutland can help infill communities like these.

BT over estimating figures again, who would of thought that!

In reply to a post by CARPETBURN:

BT over estimating figures again, who would of thought that!

Maybe the cost estimate was the same. Just the charge was different.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by CARPETBURN:

BT over estimating figures again, who would of thought that!

Maybe the cost estimate was the same. Just the charge was different.

Yep BT estimate it was cheap but wanted to charge extortionate
That explains everything

Or perhaps the £50k estimate assumes that all the residents will take the service from Rutland - they will have to if it follows the same model as elsewhere and is the monopoly service provider on the new equipment. NB The original post says "estimate", are both figures mentioned really estimates or firm quotes?

Try reading the entire story its very clear.