In reply to a post by Grimers:

How come the BTw checker only advertises it as 330/30, then?

It doesn't always.
FTTPoD at 1000/220 can be seen here:

https://ibb.co/T27Lg21

The checker shows 330/30 by default as the whole network doesn't support 1000Mb connections (ECI Head-Ends).

When an FTTP build is ongoing at an address the checker will update FTTPoD from 330/30 to 1000/220.
This change happens when a property is assigned a Huawei or Nokia Head-End/OLT.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

In reply to a post by choppersrock:

My desktop quote came back today from cerebus with estimate cost of £4,600 + vat with the number of properties passed being 7.

It's almost a certainty that any full survey quote would be at least £8k.
If you wouldn't pay £8k then you may as well save yourself £250.

Will fttpod run above 330mb??

Yes. Cerberus sell a few tiers, including 450/75Mbps and 900/115Mbps.

https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity-broa...

Given the overwhelming evidence from recent quotes, you’d be foolish to bet against a surveyed quote these days south of the £8K floor price.

Seems Openreach no longer want to get out of bed for less.

It does seem to prove the breakdown costs from a survey are simply made up, maybe the cost to bring it up to their current minimum of £8k should be put down as a surcharge rather than one of the other categories as that is just misleading.

Edited by deleted (Wed 02-Jun-21 16:47:07)

I would imagine the effort required to assign resource to one location to deliver FTTPoD is similar to that required to enable 10-20x as many properties as part of a planned rollout. If they want to withdraw the product I'd rather they just did that, as opposed to trying to make it too expensive for most people to consider.

You may think that. Somebody running a small business from home may think differently .

Edit: I agree entirely about the costly diversion of resources, in terms of results and premises connected.

Edited by pluralist (Wed 02-Jun-21 18:54:13)

Ah ok, that makes sense.

In reply to a post by jpm:

I would imagine the effort required to assign resource to one location to deliver FTTPoD is similar to that required to enable 10-20x as many properties as part of a planned rollout. If they want to withdraw the product I'd rather they just did that, as opposed to trying to make it too expensive for most people to consider.

FWIW, when they put my FTTPoD in a couple of years back, they ran more cables than they needed to (including works with a set of traffic lights further along the main road, beyond my road and further away from the exchange - "my" FTTPoD cabling only needed to reach the end of my road).

There have also been a smattering of properties on the neighbouring exchange which have paid for FTTPoD.

This week it was announced that my exchange and that neighbouring one will have FTTP for everyone rolled out in the next five years. I suspect the fact that extra cabling / ductwork was undertaken has helped things along that bit faster - as it will doubtless show up on Openreach's records that 1km of ducting is now known clear and has cabling already running through it.

NB - I'm in one of the 1% most deprived areas of England, rural with little infrastructure. It's not the sort of area you would expect to be a priority in any rollout scheme!

Edited by deleted (Thu 03-Jun-21 07:30:20)