They were very keen to get me onto FTTP - so much so that they forgot to mention there was no included phone service.

Luckily, I had my wits about me and noticed before agreeing to anything, but I don't think they planned to tell me at all!

I know that for some people who already never use their landline, this will be no big deal, but some of us still want and use it. And the price doesn't look as good when you realise you'll need to pay for separate phone arrangements to replace the landline you've just given up.

There’s Openreach FTTP and Nexfibre (Virgin Media) being rolled out in the town.

I hope one will be available this side of Christmas but don’t want to be paying £30 a month extra to plusnet whilst I wait on one of those being available as I may be being optimistic on timelines.

I will l likely migrate to pulse8 and find a cheap router. Or Now TV and pay the connection fee (was £60 last time I looked)

Disappointing as I am happy with plusnet and would stay until I can see what connections are available to me in the next few months.

If they had a £35 “out of contract price” I’d just stay and then likely sign up with plusnet for FTTP. If I migrate to another ISP the chances of me coming straight back are not high.

An Openreach CBT was installed on my pole today, so hopefully it won’t be long before something faster comes along.

Other parts of the town have been connected within a few weeks of CBT install.

It’s almost certain that someone on Plusnet , but within a minimum term , could upgrade to Plusnet FTTP without any penalty whatsoever , not even any FTTP installation charge , although it potentially increases the minimum term, but probably ties the consumer into OR network, hindering any move to an Alt Net , if the Alt Net is available first
Openreach do incentivise ISP’s to get their customers onto OR FTTP once it’s available, the only issue potentially with Plusnet is if they don’t offer an IP telephony service and telephony is required by that customer , they may not want to continue as a customer , ( and don’t want to a ‘free’ move onto BT with DV ),

Edited by Iniltous (Thu 05-Oct-23 14:21:51)

Talktalk will give me a much better router and the option of cash back though

In reply to a post by Iniltous:

It’s almost certain that someone on Plusnet , but within a minimum term , could upgrade to Plusnet FTTP without any penalty whatsoever , not even any FTTP installation charge , although it potentially increases the minimum term, but probably ties the consumer into OR network, hindering any move to an Alt Net , if the Alt Net is available first
Openreach do incentivise ISP’s to get their customers onto OR FTTP once it’s available, the only issue potentially with Plusnet is if they don’t offer an IP telephony service and telephony is required by that customer , they may not want to continue as a customer , ( and don’t want to a ‘free’ move onto BT with DV ),

Openreach have just enabled FTTP on our street. I upgraded to Full Fibre 145 by logging in to my account and clicking edit package. It's £27.99 (54p more than I was paying for FTTC). The only downside is it's a 24 month contract (I still had 9 months to run on my current contract). There's no installation fee. There's the annual price increases to consider though of course.

Installation is in a couple of weeks.

Edited by _Resonance_ (Fri 13-Oct-23 17:37:20)

The 24-month contract that people are being pushed into these days are annoying and one of the reason why I would not take up a FTTP contract, the problem is it is also happening for FTTC, which is one of the reason why I dropped Plsunet and the price.

In reply to a post by MHC:

when FTTP arrives switch your PN contract to FTTP

Sadly only possible if Openreach FTTP is in your road. No point if you have CityFibre, Toob and Virgin, but no Openreach....

I am in the same situation with the same message. If you click the offers and upgrades you will be able to extend (Broadband and phone) for 24 months at same price or 18 months at £31.

The problem comes if you want to go to SOGEA (£25) and port your phone number to VOIP. This is the scenario in which they (i.e. PN) suck.

Edited by Rerun28 (Tue 24-Oct-23 23:58:25)

The problem is that you are likely to lose the phone number in the process, if that is important to you.