In reply to a post by asrab:

To be honest i was much hoping for this to be a lot cheaper

Sounds like your aggregation node is significantly more than 100m away.

You may have enough time to get a quote and place a order with FluidOne under the old pricing structure as their new pricing kicks in after 23/2. The same costs may be spread over 36 months which makes it less eye watering.

I doubt this would work as Openreach stopped offering the old product on 1 Feb.

Who told you the agg node is a few feet from your cabinet?

Yep, considerably. My thoughts also.

In reply to a post by Bill100:

I doubt this would work as Openreach stopped offering the old product on 1 Feb.

According to this post
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4583797-re-...
FluidOne are accepting orders under the old pricing until 23rd Feb. That may only apply to those who had quotes generated before 1st Feb but there�s no harm in asrab ringing up F1 and getting clarification on this.

Hey Guys - i asked one of the Open reach engineers while they working on the fiber cabinet a while back,
Naturally i wanted to know what was going on,

Thanks for your advice,

I have already contacted Fluideone - hopefully they would get back soon

There is a more than fair chance that they didn�t know the actual answer.

In reply to a post by asrab:

Hey Guys - Just been off a call from Cerberus:

The have informed me a build charge of £14,800, based on the new pricing

Ouch! Is that plus VAT?

Does your desk survey give you the distance to the fibre aggregation node?

Also, did you ever find out on the old pricing model what band you were in? That also gives you a rough indication of the line-of-sight distance to the aggregation node.

(In case you hadn't picked it up already: the fibre aggregation node is generally *not* your FTTC cabinet. More likely, it's an upstream chamber which several FTTC cabinets are fed from)

Did you ever get the detail info you were expecting? Did it explain why the estimate was so high?