Where did you get the AAISP figures from?
Are you pricing that at 40/10 speeds?
For their normal FTTP product they charge an extra £51.60 a month to up your speed to 100/30.
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A 330/30 product would be a very scary product for me on the units based tariff.
You could be billed at around £500 per hour during the day !

FTTPoD 300/30 isn't suitable for council renting house or flat for 36 months. For homeowner, yes if they already paid off their mortgage and had no plan to move within the next 36 months.

I think 36 months is a bit harsh by BTO. Should be 12 months.

In reply to a post by bdo21:

I may be missing something but why is 36 months such a problem for homeowners who don't plan on moving? It's not as if you're signing up for something which is current technology that might get replaced (eg ADSL2 replaced by FTTC) - nothing is going to be faster than FTTP in the next 3 years?

It's all well and good not planning on moving. Given 1 in 6 home owners would be put into deep excreta by a relatively modest interest rate increase and hardly anyone has a totally secure job it seems very few indeed could be assured they'd be safe.

If you have no outstanding mortgage and a fixed, guaranteed income perhaps you're fine. For those who aren't retired / buy to let landlords / independently wealthy / baby boomers it's a quite different story.

Am sure a shorter contract is possible, but will mean it costs more money

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Am sure a shorter contract is possible, but will mean it costs more money

Can you find out how much money if customer option for 12 months?

In reply to a post by gmoorc:

Where did you get the AAISP figures from?
Are you pricing that at 40/10 speeds?
For their normal FTTP product they charge an extra £51.60 a month to up your speed to 100/30.
Link

A 330/30 product would be a very scary product for me on the units based tariff.
You could be billed at around £500 per hour during the day !

They told me this in an email when we were clearly discussing FTTPoD (which is only available 330/30 so it can't be 40/10. I agree the metered pricing is concerning although I don't expect my usage to increase materially. The price is £75/month after the 3 year contract (+usage). A quote from the email is below:

"Monthly cost for first 3 years is £20.00 and then £75 per month thereafter. Usage will charged be based on units tariff. Minimum of 2 units required for entry level at £3.90 per unit. Each unit would give either 2.5GB peak download allowance or 50GB off peak"

In reply to a post by adslmax:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Am sure a shorter contract is possible, but will mean it costs more money

Can you find out how much money if customer option for 12 months?

If the AAISP pricing in my other post is correct, then one way of implicitly converting this into a one year contract is to compare it to paying two years of the 3 year contract upfront or buying out the 2nd and 3rd years of the contract (ie 24 monthly costs of £20 so £480 extra upfront/buyout costs)

Thanks. That's interesting.
If you can live within their units tariff that's a great price. Almost too good!
Wonder if Openreach have promotional tariffs for FTTPoD at the moment?
The only Openreach price I can find is £45.60 a month including vat for the product rental.

Can I invoice you my consultancy bill first?

Or alternatively - take the roughly £40/month revenue to Openreach over 3 years and now pay that over 12 months.

When I asked originally about the 36 month term, Openreach replied that there was nothing to stop the ISP ramping up the cost so that the 3 years term was paid over a 2 year or any other period

In reply to a post by bdo21:

RobertoS mentioned £100 per month. Where does this number come from?

RobertoS got it from what you quoted in your post that he was replying to .

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 21-Dec-13 14:16:47)