As cabinet is not live, computer probably said no, and agent did not notice that its not a live cab, and just thought it was a too far issue

yeah sounds like that might be the case (hopefully anyway!). I was hoping it might not be dependent on the cabinet as the service runs to the node, but sounds like I'll need to wait for the cab. to get power. Hopefully SSE will sort themselves out soon, this cab. has been waiting for power for the last 3-4 months!

Join the club, power is all wee need too.

Just as an update on this and to provide some more data points for anyone looking at FTTPoD. The cabinet on our exchange got enabled, so I was able to place an order with FluidOne which went through on the 1st August.

We've just had an engineer out to look at the layout for the installation who said they might be able to bring the fibre from a pole relatively closeby (so fingers crossed no excess construction charges).

The process with FluidOne has been pretty good so far, they kept in touch and checked up regularly with Openreach on progress on the exchange, and the order process was easy enough.

Here is quote from cerberusnetworks as it seem lots cheaper than fluidone who will be charged at £300 plus vat a month but cerberusnetworks only charged at £87.50 plus vat a month.

https://postimg.org/image/ryh9jx1dx/

I was surprise I am on Band B distance based charge (between 200m and 399m NGA Aggregation Node)

That's interesting! Good to see some more ISPs entering the arena for FTTPoD.

I had thought the Openreach price of FTTPoD was higher than that, so that seems like a pretty good deal.

No what they do is ordering FTTPoD then after activation they only charged me for FTTP Pro 2 not FTTPoD. It's appear fluidone is charged for FTTPoD after activated, which it quite rip off and expensive. U are better off with Cerberus Networks Ltd as they will put you on FTTP Pro 2 instead of stupid FTTPoD monthly service charge.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 07-Aug-17 12:37:37)

That monthly price of £87.50 (ex vat) you've been quoted is for native FTTP, because if you look here

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

their 'FTTP Pro 2' package is actually for native FTTP and pricing is shown as £87.50.

Its D�j� vu all over again:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4526073-bt-...

Yes but the manager say once FTTPoD is activated, they will use native FTTP Pro 2 instead to charge this service for £87.50 exc VAT per month. They say they can wrangling with BT to make sure we are able to supply this to consumers as well as businesses with their terms and conditions of resale for native FTTP Pro 2 instead of FTTPoD.

Will they be able to do this? I doubt Openreach and BT will rejected this order anyway.

In that case i reckon you should go ahead with the order (if you're able to afford it) and sign the agreement with the quoted monthly charge of £87.50. If they renege on the order then sue them for breach of contract and maybe, just maybe, you might be able to get FTTPoD for £87.50 a month. I thought about doing the same with BT Business ( i had a signed contract/agreement with them) but thought it would be a waste of time and energy since they have stopped selling FTTPoD altogether. But you will be in a better position since Cerberus actually sell the product.