I just got my quote through. I think I will be holding out for it to be delivered natively!

Dear Customer

Thank you for requesting an estimate of the installation costs for FTTP on Demand at xxxxxxxxBelfast, BT8 .

We have now received the estimate of the charges from BT. These are detailed below.

Estimated Build Cost: £39000.00 ex VAT
The build charge includes the estimate for the work and materials required to deliver the service. It also includes the connection charge.

Number of premises passed for FTTP: 12
The build estimate includes a reduction for the number of premises passed as these would be able to obtain FTTP as a consequence of your build. Customers at these premises may submit a linked FTTPoD order to share the construction costs. You will receive a discount of £700.00 ex VAT from this figure for each linked order that is served by your build. Linked orders may be submitted to Cerberus Networks at the customer�s own risk. If one order is cancelled this will cancel all the linked orders so you must find a way for all parties to work together to share any costs.

Please note that this is an estimated price based on network records. There are a number of factors that may affect the final costs. These would be only confirmed by a full survey once you place an order for the service.

To proceed with an order, you must pay the £250.00 ex VAT survey charge. The survey will normally take place within 3 weeks. After the survey, you will have 28 days to accept or reject the confirmed build charge. This will be presented as Excess Construction Charges (ECCs). If you do not accept the ECCs and wish to cancel the order, the survey charge will stand. If you decide to proceed with the order, the survey charge will be deducted from the total ECC figure.

If you wish to proceed to an order for FTTPoD, please Click here.

If you have any questions about the FTTPoD service please contact the sales team on 0345 257 1333 or at [email protected].

Thanks again for your interest in this service.

Cerberus Networks

I too just got my £39,000 quote. Only two premises passed, which I know to be incorrect (it's at least four, plus mine). Good grief.

Is there something magical about £39K? Perhaps based on a cap?

Reality is that there is a reason why Vodafone and others when approaching their FTTP roll-outs are looking to do whole streets at the same time, i.e. costs drop massively when you do things that way, rather than a piecemeal method.

No regulator is going to act over the Openreach FoD pricing either, since if it is actually higher than it needs to be, it is creating a wider space for alternate operators to exist within.

I was thinking that as well, my quote also came in at £39000 ,must be some maximum cost limit as that is 3 or 4 people with the same figure.

Edited by pipcoo (Wed 07-Mar-18 13:06:33)

I got my quote today too - £39+VAT so a ridiculous amount! Although there are *many* on the same street it says the number of premises passed is only 6.

Has anyone been able to get more information about the route taken and what they've considered to be a "premises passed" before asking for a proper survey?

Is this the 3rd person in this thread that has signed up today on TBB and in their first post, has posted a quotation from Cerberus for FoD of £39,000?

I could understand if the costs came out the same but they are not.

I got pricing beforehand and the thing that put me off was the 3 year contract as this market is moving so fast.

I don't mind paying a front-loaded cost understanding that they have 12 months rather than 36 to recoup the cost.

But they are wanting nearly twice the price compared to before.

Perhaps OpenReach have analysed the actual costs of providing FFTPoD recently and decided that the previous pricing was woefully inadequate to cover their actual costs. I have seen the many posts from members who have ordered FTTPoD and their installations seemed to require many ducts to be cleared or poles to be replaced etc. which must make it more expensive than previously estimated.

Got my £39000 quote this morning too.

"Estimated Build Cost: £39000.00 ex VAT"
"Number of premises passed for FTTP: 4"

Looks like they just got bored and sent everyone a £39000 quote

Based off absolute worst case scenario is what these £39k quotes sound like, as you said with extra costs of unknown blocked ducts etc.