So have Openreach confirmed the build price after your survey? If so, is it the same as your desktop survey quote?

Why ? How would that benefit Openreach ?

They don�t make money by sitting on an order, they make money by fulfilling it.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Why ? How would that benefit Openreach ?

They don�t make money by sitting on an order, they make money by fulfilling it.

(Regarding it being perhaps a low priority with Openreach)...

Look at it from their point of view. Would you rather make a bit of profit from a complex job (surveying and then laying cabling etc for one person) or would you rather make a larger amount of profit from allocating those same resources to a wider FTTP rollout, say to a new estate? It's a no brainer - you'd go for the FTTP rather than FTTPoD option every time.

I don't believe a company as large as Openreach has no surveyors at all who are able to reach my part of Kent (which is less than an hour from London), even though my order reached the "we'll allocate a surveyor" stage 3 weeks ago. Heck, it took 7 weeks for Openreach just to get to that stage - it must be exasperating for the likes of Cerberus!

Openreach won't be deliberately delaying your survey. I had my survey done within a month last year and that was way up north in Inverness - if its taking longer now this means the demand is greater now than it was 12 months ago.

In reply to a post by Retron:

I'd be another, but for now an actual survey is yet to occur. To be fair, Cerberus have been great in terms of keeping me up to date, usually with updates on a Thursday.

Similar story here: placed order on March 10th, survey took place on May 31st, now waiting for costing back.

Surveyors were very thorough: a team of three vans arrived before 9.30am, and were still working in the road at 4pm!

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

So have Openreach confirmed the build price after your survey? If so, is it the same as your desktop survey quote?

No I have received nothing back yet. I also haven't received anything from Cerberus either. As they have been emailing every Friday to say "still nothing yet" ever since April when I made my survey order.

This is the very first week they did not send an email. So I guess they may have been waiting for something from OR before sending it but then nothing came.

I will definitely post when I get the final figure. As I have found it annoying myself when a lot of people have been saying in this topic they will post any results they get back on the final figure but then they don't come back after this.

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

if its taking longer now this means the demand is greater now than it was 12 months ago.

Or they are finding ways to shaft us. Last year it was, so you live 400m away. So that's £1200.

Now its, how much wlll it cost for 400 meters of cable, and 400m of ducting, and a splitter. And to hire the digger for a day. And how much bags of cement will we need to buy to put the holes back and what about holiday pay for the workers and etc.

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In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

if its taking longer now this means the demand is greater now than it was 12 months ago.

Or they are finding ways to shaft us. Last year it was, so you live 400m away. So that's £1200.

Now its, how much wlll it cost for 400 meters of cable, and 400m of ducting, and a splitter. And to hire the digger for a day. And how much bags of cement will we need to buy to put the holes back and what about holiday pay for the workers and etc.

Are you really still coming out with that nonsense?

Last week you moaning about the price and now you know your line is direct buried right to the cabinet, down a main road.

400M x £112.05 per meter and you moan they changed their pricing from £1200 ?

Would you run your business that way?

They changed their pricing for a reason. It was stated on here dozens of times that build costs would go up.
You gambled and waited in the hope it went down in price.
You lost that gamble.
Get over it already.

At times I feel this thread would be better titled "FTTPoD unrealistic expectations".

You can't really complain about this, when it was £1200 you didn't pull the trigger, think of it as early adoption discount. Now it has gone up your complaining?