It's a price mistake.

They would lose money on this if they sold it at those quoted rates.

Yes it would seem to be. No isp's would offer FTTPoD for £90 a month exc vat as Cerberus isp is very poor lack of error in pricing.

Edited by adslmax (Fri 04-Aug-17 18:58:46)

I stand corrected, I thought the price of £90pm was too good to be true for FoD though their salesperson seemed very convincing. Looks like Cerberus are confused internally as to the pricing of FoD.

@OP
I also had to pay nearly 4.5k (one off costs) via bank transfer to Fluidone as they wouldn't take CC payments due to processing charges. My monthly charges are by monthly direct debit. You've probably got nothing to worry about if you did the same as Cerberus do seem like a legit outfit, HOWEVER as others have said it's extremely unlikely you will pay 90 quid a month in service charges (more like 300 pm) so I would get that clarified. Ask them why they've quoted you more or less the Openreach wholesale costs.

@MrSaffron
It's only my property on my street (Woodlands Park IV2 5FJ) for which the Bt checker is showing native FTTP availability, others still show FTTPoD.

You don't need to pay the full amount via credit card to get section 75 protection, if still going ahead ask if you can pay a small amount by credit card, I would do £100 but I believe it can be less, just the total needs to be over £100 to qualify.

In reply to a post by radii:

Dear all,
I'm intending to get a FTTPOD Connection via Cerberus- it is data only connection no landline. Is there a 2nd port on the FTTP connection- so than I can also get BT Infinity 4 at the same time?

Thanks
Radii

Did you end up placing the order with them? How much did they quote you? Intrigued to know if they will be charging you £90 pm or £150 pm.

I received quote for 90 per month
Did not go for it- as they wouldn't take £100 via credit card and rest via bacs/ faster payments.

1st there was Fluidata/Fluidone
2nd Cerberus

Likely in time more providers will come onstream.
I'm happy to go with BT Business FTTOD- it is listed in their price guide- but they won't sell it.
Maybe at some stage a residential provider will get it into the game.

It's very unlikely a residential ISP will get involved in FTTPod in its current form. OpenReach bind the ISP to a 3 year minimum term, but the ISP can only have 2 year contacts for residential customers.
The ISP would need to essentially eat year 3.

In reply to a post by radii:

"I received quote for 90 per month
Did not go for it- as they wouldn't take £100 via credit card and rest via bacs/ faster payments."

Radii did you receive this quote from Cerberus?

They told me that they are still "speaking" to Openreach and would only be able to give quotes next week or so. I've been waiting a few weeks for my quote while they figure out what FTTPoD really is. Initially when I first called them they gave an estimated quote of £150 per month but I am expecting their new quote to come in at £300 like fluidone.

In reply to a post by mumba:

They told me that they are still "speaking" to Openreach

I suspect they're telling porkies. Openreach's FTTPoD wholesale prices are fixed and in black & white so not sure why they need to talk to them.

FluidOne mentioned to me today that they insist on a Juniper router being installed, in order for them to offer their FTTPoD service.

They said it costs around £800.

Is this the case for any of you who are already customers of theirs? Is such an expensive router really necessary?

Would an existing router like a draytek vigor 2860 not cope fine with 330mbs or even 1 gigabit?