In reply to a post by Retron:

In reply to a post by Retron:

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!

In case anyone is wondering, it turns out OpenReach are snowed under with demand at the moment (apparently) and thus there's a long lead time on the surveys - no ETA on mine, but I'm getting weekly emails from Cerberus to keep me updated as they chase OpenReach on my behalf.

Would seem that despite efforts to bury that product, there is still interest from potential customers.

I'm a bit bit further behind in the process myself, still waiting for the premises past list from Cerberus. By the sound of it, they're struggling to prise said list from Openreach (if it even exists)...

In reply to a post by Webbs:

Would seem that despite efforts to bury that product, there is still interest from potential customers.

I suspect many of the those will be business customers. Provided you don't live too far from an Agg node, FTTPoD still works out way cheaper than a leased line albeit without the SLAs. With ISPs expected to announce 500 Meg & 1 Gig FTTP packages on the BT Wholesale platform sometime this year, you could get a 1 Gig FTTPoD/FTTP service for significantly less than an equivalent leased line. Last year I was quoted £1300 per month for a 1 Gig leased line service on a 36 months min term...this was the cheapest lol

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Apr-18 11:08:58)

I just received my desk-estimate from Cerberus...I was previously band A, quoted ~ £1,100 from FluidOne under the old pricing (which I believe is the min banded cost of £350 and the connection charge of £750).

My new estimate came in a a staggering £30,100.00 ex VAT - I'm not sure I've seen a previous band A with such a high increase...

What are the chances that they've messed up somehow?

I am a good distance from my cabinet (I know this isn't necessarily where the aggregation node is, and from my previous banding I'm sure it isn't), so maybe they've missed a closer node or something?

If you really do live very close to an agg node - as your price under the old system suggests - then I very much doubt Openreach would charge £30k under the new system. I think its a classic case of Openreach using this quote generator again lol

Obviously if you're serious then you should proceed with the survey, though it will cost you £250 if you pull out.

It's occurred to me that the closest agg node may actually be at my closest cabinet, the only thing is I'm not connected to it! There's a cabinet literally 200m along a straight road from my house, but the cabinet I'm connected to is 1.3 miles away...no amount of begging or pleading could convince OR to let me pay them to move it of course...

I'm 75% of the way convinced to going ahead with a survey, I'd just hate to throw away the money just for them to come back with £30k!

In reply to a post by adfinlay:

I'm 75% of the way convinced to going ahead with a survey, I'd just hate to throw away the money just for them to come back with £30k!

True, its a gamble. But just to give you an idea how wrong OR quotes can be, one of my immediate neighbours was quoted £21k+ under the new pricing when the FTTP splitter - from my FoD install - is less than 20 metres away from his front door with nice clear u/g ducts already in place (houses aren't that old). Wouldn't surprise me if some YTS Trainee was giving out the desktop survey quotes.

Edited by deleted (Fri 11-May-18 13:41:36)

Aggregation nodes are positioned usually to serve 1400 premises, so will normally cover several VDSL2 cabinets

So it might be a lot further away than your hopes

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Aggregation nodes are positioned usually to serve 1400 premises, so will normally cover several VDSL2 cabinets

So it might be a lot further away than your hopes

I was basing my hopes on the location of the closest cabinet and the fact that I was previously in band A though...

I was told that my aggregation node was 11 miles away (as the cable flies), but I find that very hard to believe.

Has anybody actually got any survey results back from the new system yet? I placed my order on March 9th and am still waiting for the survey to take place.