G.fast pilot BT Wholesale pricing

For the curious the pricing of G.fast, or FTTC 160/30 and 330/50 variants, is on the BT Wholesale website. All prices are monthly rental charges and exclude VAT.

£19.00 for 160/30
£23.00 for 330/50.

Interestingly the transition product FTTP version of 330/50 is considerably more expensive at £46.00.

Taking data-only FTTP services the pricing is £28.00 for 160/30 and £55.00 for 330/50.

For comparison, the BT Wholesale price list shows a charge of £16.00/month for 80/20 FTTC and £14.00 for the 40/10 service.

Going by that formula the price difference between 330/50 and 80/20 at retail shouldn't be massive, perhaps ball park £15/month unless on FTTP.

Link?

A very quick google takes me here and prices appear to be in the "WBC Pricelist - Effective 1 September 2017".

It wasn't very hard to find...

EDIT : Oddly when compared to other packages the pricing of 330/50 is MUCH cheaper on FTTC than on FTTP. There is also no listing for 330/30 on FTTC but there still is on FTTP.

Edited by ian72 (Mon 04-Sep-17 15:21:39)

In reply to a post by ian72:

EDIT : Oddly when compared to other packages the pricing of 330/50 is MUCH cheaper on FTTC than on FTTP. There is also no listing for 330/30 on FTTC but there still is on FTTP.

There's no 330/30 FTTC product, never has been.

The difference in pricing between FTTC and P on that one tier is odd indeed.

There was never a 330/50 before 1/9 either. So, FTTP they have kept 330/30 and added 330/50 but for FTTC they have not created a 330/30 - hence the reason I made my comment. You would think maybe they would have removed the 330/30 and migrated existing users over to keep the product offerings simpler - there are now distinct differences between FTTP and FTTC which barring the fact FTTC couldn't previously run the faster packages was not previously the case.

Edited by ian72 (Mon 04-Sep-17 15:28:33)

FTTC 80/20 £16.00 pm
FTTC 160/30* £19.00 pm
FTTC 330/50* £23.00 pm

*FTTC with G.Fast

To avoid the 'I cannot get it at those prices' emails I've backed off from running all the wholesale changes these days...

any indication if they avoiding VM areas?

curious if there is political intervention on the early areas.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

any indication if they avoiding VM areas?

curious if there is political intervention on the early areas.

Here they're actively targeting them.

Only tracking those where people can order and you can make your own mind up using

https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#... just toggle off/on the cable layer to get a good idea