Thank you very much for clarifying. Could you describe what the minimum guaranteed throughput is with this service?

The £140 plus VAT is for the connection only. The ISP then needs to have their own network, support staff, onward Internet connection, servers, firewalls, etc to be costed within anything offered to the end user. That would see to be why most are charging much more than that per month.

That is interesting. Given that Openreach prices are a lot lower than £140, what exactly does the Wholesale price include that is not covered by OR?

In reply to a post by GenuineCerberus:

I am an account manager for Cerberus Networks, and I've been following the various forum threads regarding FTTP services. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about our services.

Thanks for clearing that up for us.

In reply to a post by Bill100:

That is interesting. Given that Openreach prices are a lot lower than £140, what exactly does the Wholesale price include that is not covered by OR?

Transport form the exchange / headend back to the handover point to the ISP's network. The handover point costs a fair bit too, of course

But, yeah, the extra is the BT Wholesale transport network.

Openreach charge is £99 per month. Not sure what the extra £41 for the BT Wholesale price covers.

EDIT : And the question was answered by IgnitionNet... So, £41 for the backhaul etc. If not done via BT Wholesale then the ISP would presumably need to put their own equipment in the exchange and pay for running that equipment and interconnects.

Edited by ian72 (Mon 04-Sep-17 15:58:34)

Do you have any current live customers on the FTTPoD package at £165 per month?

You do seem very good value compared to others we have seen discussed here and there isn't much margin on top of the OR/Wholesale costs for you.

Thank you all for that info... so that basically leaves £25 a month for Cerberus to meet all their costs including unlimited bandwidth..? Sounds a bit optimistic even if you factor in the larger than standard install cost.

I was thinking much the same but actually it is probably a similar profit margin to the standard FTTP 330/30 offering so if they can do it on that then why not on FTTPoD. At first look it seemed to good to be true but FTTPoD has no more in the way of running costs above the wholesale price than FTTP.

Thanks for clearing things up.

However you say

In reply to a post by GenuineCerberus:

Cerberus will take credit card payments

Yet according to user 'radii' he/she was refused the option of paying the first £100 of installation charges by credit card (to get S75 protection) and remainder by bank transfer?

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4563475-re-...