Faster FTTPoD now offered by Openreach

As of today, 20 January, the Openreach price list shows:-

Up to 330Mbit/s/30Mbit/s 01/05/2014 Base installation 750.00 Annual rental 1,188.00
Up to 500Mbit/s/165Mbit/s 20/01/2017 Base installation 1158.00 Annual rental 1,392.00
Up to 1000Mbit/s/220Mbit/s 20/01/2017 Base installation 1158.00 Annual rental 1,692.00

All plus the same (unchanged) distance related charges and Vat.

The new products are not showing on native FTTP.

async speeds to keep market segmented

I'd love to install one of these if I could find an ISP who will provide.

Try BT Business.

Also, try these - https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/fibre-broadb...

It's going to be bespoke, so they won't advertise on their websites.

Would a 220/220 synchronous package make people happier?

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Would a 220/220 synchronous package make people happier?

Well if any of those 3 packages was to become available for FTTP if I was to upgrade, I would probably go for the middle one of 500Mbps down and 165Mbps up if the price is right, while the down stream is only increasing by 40% the upload is increased by nearly 82%.

Going by the price of Infinity 4 I am assuming the price of 500:165 would be about £58 p/m (£696 p/y)

Also while 1000:220 would be cool to have, but most of that bandwidth would just be a waste for the home, for businesses that might be enough and also in their price bracket of about ~£70.

Please note all quoted prices are just estimations and are most probably incorrect.

But until BT resolve all the congestion out, I cannot see them providing those speeds without having some issues.

Paul

Your prices are going to be quite off. For GEA-FTTP:

1000/220 is £1,152 (per year/inc VAT) with Openreach, so £96.00 a month
500/165 is £792 (per year/inc VAT) with Openreach, so £66.00 a month

These are just the rental costs for the ISP for the connection so once an ISP adds their costs to it, I think you're looking at around £100 per month for the 500/165 and £140+ per month for the 1000/220.

As far as I am aware, BT Wholesale is 'investigating' the demand for the higher end new native FTTP speeds. I would be very surprised if we see them on a residential level with BT Retail this year though.

From May 2017, BT Wholesale will add the 160/30 and 330/50 speeds to their FTTP portfolio. These are to align what G.fast is going to offer in the future. As a random guess, I would assume BT Retail will then offer 40/10, 80/20, 160/30 and 330/50 as their product portfolio for FTTP.

Edited by deleted (Sat 21-Jan-17 12:52:33)

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

async speeds to keep market segmented

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Would a 220/220 synchronous package make people happier?

Perhaps you both intended to use the words asymmetric and symmetric, respectively!

Correction to my Opening Post. These two products have in fact been available on native FTTP since 7 December 2016.

I discovered this just now on going to check AndyHCZ's figures as I didn't see them in the price list when making the OP. That's because I didn't spot the word "transition" in the price list on this page.

I still don't know what that means other than they are only available if there is an existing copper phone line present, and are at a lower rental cost than the non-transitional found by scrolling down the page a bit. That gives a second table at higher prices for the same things and also these two products.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

Your prices are going to be quite off. For GEA-FTTP:

1000/220 is £1,152 (per year/inc VAT) with Openreach, so £96.00 a month
500/165 is £792 (per year/inc VAT) with Openreach, so £66.00 a month

These are just the rental costs for the ISP for the connection so once an ISP adds their costs to it, I think you're looking at around £100 per month for the 500/165 and £140+ per month for the 1000/220.

Well I know I would be off, I just compared the monthly cost of 300:30 package and divided the cost with what we pay for ours which equalled to 24.
So I just divided both of those prices with 24 and come up with the prices I said, which wasn't too far off LOL.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

As far as I am aware, BT Wholesale is 'investigating' the demand for the higher end new native FTTP speeds. I would be very surprised if we see them on a residential level with BT Retail this year though.

This is true.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

From May 2017, BT Wholesale will add the 160/30 and 330/50 speeds to their FTTP portfolio. These are to align what G.fast is going to offer in the future. As a random guess, I would assume BT Retail will then offer 40/10, 80/20, 160/30 and 330/50 as their product portfolio for FTTP.

I would be interested in the 330:50 (i.e. the extra 20Mbps up) but its all down to whether BT actually sell the 50 Mbps upstream product, I know they don't do the 330 Mbps and what BT do sell is 300, so that's 30Mbps lower.

Also wasn't there to be a ~500 Mbps downstream package that they was also suppose to be providing at the same time their ~500 Mbps G.Fast package?

Paul