It's all a bit fruitless anyway.

Once a ONT is registered to the OLT, you would need to reset the OLT to register a new ONT.

@Zarjaz will be able to confirm a little bit about how it all works.

XGPON will mean new ONTs (the current ones are GPON only as I understand it). An XGPON ONT would likely have a 10GbE port. This one on alibaba does, for example.

So again, with the new FTTPoD prices, they're promising 1gbps connections later this year too - should prices be reasonable (ie around £1-1.5k which is my elasticity point for FTTPoD) I will probably opt for a slower 'intermediary' speed for the initial 12 month pain, and upgrade to full bore gigabit, and so with the £11.25 regrade fee, surely it's best to have an ONT that can do XGPON...

Why do you think Openreach will swallow the extra costs of adding the XGPON optics within the standard £11.25 regrade fee? This extra cost is why the 500 and 1000 Mbps products carry a higher set up fee and thus are targeted at the business sector.

And for those worrying about presenting a 1 Gbps service over a 1 Gbps Ethernet port, what is the actual worry?

Plenty of commercial services do this, and its not like consumer grade routers are two a penny with a 10GbE WAN interfaces

Where have they said that in the new pricing announcements?

They have not, but I would urge caution, there is not point in having a different set up fee if people can simply regrade and trigger the extra work for XGPON and thus I believe the regrade will not be possible.

If you look at

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/prici...

the fixed connection price from BT Openreach for 500 and 1000 service jumps from £92 to £500 so by the time that comes via BT Wholesale and the ISP - we can expect a bump in install prices of £450+

Having a look at the price list again...

XGPON has a £500 fixed connection fee, versus GPON at £92 (£408 difference). Regrade fee is £11.25. I would assume that this difference is the cost of optics.

Even so, £408 + £11.25 = £419.25, which is still cheaper than the difference between a 330 annual fee and the 1000 annual fee (£504) but more than the 160 -> 500mbps annual fee (£406.32).

/methinks this is another small point for your notepad when whispering to OR and getting under the skin of the new FTTPoD regime

I do not trust their price list. If you look at the retail FTTP price list which is a bit more informative that the FTTPoD version (located at https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/prici... ),

... the bandwidth change pricing is dated from June 2014, and I suspect relates to changes in all the sub 330 / XXX speeds which would have been possible since then using standard GPON optics.

I suspect that as > 330 speeds become readily available, we will see revised pricing for those faster circuits.