what we are talking about here is the balance between upfront cost and rental over a term. Previously install was lower, rental was higher and longer. Better to look as cost of ownership.

From what I can figure out about all this is that installing FTTP is cheaper than installing FOD, in the sense if someone asks for FOD then unless that person is close to the current fibre network, it would cost more to build out one property instead of FTTP which they will build a whole area.

I still think FoD is helpful to gauging FTTP demand.

FTTP seems to now be the most cost effective step. Now its just a matter of OR and others, installing more fibre.

My spin kept coming up at 2k so I must be lucky1 Like it though.

In reply to a post by kitcat:

My spin kept coming up at 2k so I must be lucky1 Like it though.

That's just the desk spin though - You'll have to pay £250 for a proper, binding, spin

I'm looking to get FTTPoD installed, but decided to wait until the new pricing came in.

I'm 220m or so away from my nearest cabinet (I know that's not necessarily where the aggregation node is) and something like 1100m from the exchange.

So, one email to Cerberus later and the estimate comes back:

Estimated Build Cost: £13,600.00 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: 8


So, a £14K+VAT estimate, minus a deduction for those 8 houses. I've gone for a BT field survey (delayed for a minimum of 14 days as per Cerberus' TsandCs for consumer users) and will post the final charges here in due course. It should make for an interesting data point as to how accurate those desk-based survey quotes are!

Retron

Thanks

I think we will all be waiting in anticipation to see the survey results. One case will not make a representative sample but better than none. I hope others will follow your lead.

For those who may be interested. I also ased Amvia for a quote for FTTPod

And today I have had this back quoting the exact same £20,600 ex vat price.

I am not sure if they are the same company as Cerebrus and just a reseller of them. But this is what come back showing BT are getting these quotes from somewhere.

I still cannot believe mine jumped up from £1,800 to £20,600. build costs in only 2 months.

The first is an affordable luxery price. The second is just stupd. They may as well ask for a million dollars given how stupid the price is.

its the sort of price you set, when you want to be able to claim a product is available from your company but at the same time you dont want to sell that product.

Amvia is indeed a reseller of Cerberus.

I think I must live on top of the aggregation node based on my exceedingly cheap quote

Estimated Build Cost: £7,200.00 ex VAT
Number of premises passed for FTTP: 17