Wasn't there some Government inducement to ISPs a while back encouraging the takeup of fibre? And even if there was, what's all the fuss about?

At contract renewal PN offered me a two-year FTTP deal for slightly less than I had been happily paying for FTTC, doubling my speed which had always been adequate for our needs. I would hope they can recover their installation costs ... half my working life in self-employment taught me that like any business I needed to make a profit or I would go hungry at the end of each month.

As to a two-year contract, do I really want the hassle (and sometimes problems) of changing ISP every year? No thanks.

Have you seen the announcement that Now Broadband (I believe they were on your shortlist) are increasing their prices by £3.50 from July

In reply to a post by candlerb:

It's both a minimum and a maximum. Openreach can neither charge below nor above that for the regulated 40/10 services.

Clearly they can't sell below that price for higher speeds either, or that would allow them to circumvent the minimum price.

The point is, Openreach do charge more for FTTP than FTTC.

Of course, Openreach and Plusnet are both owned by BT Group. Hence you could argue Plusnet enticing customers over to FTTP could relate more to overall BT Group priorities, than what Plusnet might do if it were independent. But there are plenty of non-BT Group ISPs you can choose - and I don't think many of those will still be pushing legacy connections in areas where FTTP is available.

I don't want them pushing anything to be honest, I phone plusnet up to see if they could do a better price than what is being offered by them online. sure, tell me about FTTP and the price, the problem was that is all he went on about, I took the conversion back to FTTc and while he did tell me the price of it, he went back to FTTP.

I know who owns Plusnet, when I decided to go onto FTTC from the wireless service i was using, I had my doubts about Plusnet because they belong to BT, but they were at the time the only ones at a decent price who were able to connect me up pretty quick.

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

Wasn't there some Government inducement to ISPs a while back encouraging the takeup of fibre? And even if there was, what's all the fuss about?

I don't know.

At contract renewal PN offered me a two-year FTTP deal for slightly less than I had been happily paying for FTTC, doubling my speed which had always been adequate for our needs. I would hope they can recover their installation costs ... half my working life in self-employment taught me that like any business I needed to make a profit or I would go hungry at the end of each month.

As to a two-year contract, do I really want the hassle (and sometimes problems) of changing ISP every year? No thanks.

Other providers offer a 12 month contract on FTTP, so they must think they will get their money back, maybe they hope people will like their service and stay with them after 12months. You forget that with the way inflation is at the moment you will have the price rise twice and you will not be able to do anything about it, at least with a 18 month contract, you only get it once and can try and get a deal after the 18 months. Plusnet is even doing 24 months contract on FTTC, how long before others follow? I can still go for a 18 month contract or 12 months, but I pay more for doing so, which don't make sense as the set-up is already done, no set up costs as I have had FTT|C for 7 years, I think. They don't even have to send me a new router, as I have my own
you say you are doubling your speed with FTTP, then you must be on a 74Mb/s package. I am fine with the 36Mb/s i have got, i have said that before I have no need for anything faster and I really don't want the hassle of changing as FTTc works and is already installed, nobody tramping around drilling holes in walls, fitting in a system that may not work. i have seen where people have had problems with FTTP,

In reply to a post by dect:

Have you seen the announcement that Now Broadband (I believe they were on your shortlist) are increasing their prices by £3.50 from July

i took that off my list anyway as I saw the prices before the announcement, Shell and onestream are the only ones on my list for FTTC now, onestream does a 12 month contract for £21.95 for 36Mb/s. I need to do a bit of digging to see what they are like