Nice one

Out of interest, do you know what "band" you were in under the old pricing scheme?

When people are writing the prices is that just for the work being carried out, or does it include the monthly subscription fee as well?

Probably an obvious answer but just making sure I understand it.

Just the work carried out

With Cerberus it's £100+VAT per month for the initial 12 month contract at 330/30. I don't know what FluidOne are offering these days.

After that, it reverts to regular FTTP pricing. If you stick with Cerberus it's £62.50+VAT per month for 330/30 or 330/50 (depending on what your line supports), or you can change to a lower speed, or switch to a completely different provider.

In reply to a post by mumba:

Agreed the whole reason they changed the pricing structure was because OR was taking all the risk on ECC's before and were probably losing lots of money on average as a result. My install involved 18 blocked ducts, a new pole to be erected and 9 months of work by OR. They never charged me a cent for ECC's because they couldn't.

I don't see why clearing blocked ducts should be chargeable to a customer anyway, after all it's unlikely to be the customers fault that the ducts have become blocked.

A bit like ordering a taxi to the airport 100 miles away and the taxi driver charging the customer for a new engine because he doesn't think his car will make the journey on the old one.

I just had my desktop quote at £18,800 + VAT. I don't think I will proceed with the survey as even if they come back with 50% that is too much for me. I'm just about to buy this house and was hoping there was a solution to the 11mb-15mb estimate that the checkers give (I currently get full 76mb).

Because you are requesting something on demand that they otherwise wouldn't do. It could be those ducts could stay blocked for 30 years and make no impact on service delivery - but if you want them cleared now to get a new service then you pay to have them cleared.

In reply to a post by Rastus:

I don't see why clearing blocked ducts should be chargeable to a customer anyway, after all it's unlikely to be the customers fault that the ducts have become blocked.

When the OR survey was done the guy from OR said its not my fault there is no ducting laid between my property and the AGnode and I should not need to pay for that as that is what OR are required to provide for customers.

But my charge was for me to pay for it all for my estate to have new ducting laid.

Hence why I refused. What should be and seems right is not what occurs with FTTP on demand with OR.

If there are several people in your estate who are prepared to pay for fibre, you can club together for a combined FTTPoD order.

I'm not sure where the crossover between this and CFP is.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

I'm not sure where the crossover between this and CFP is.

In a Community Fibre Partnership, Openreach will partially fund the build hence why its only offered in areas where no kind of superfast broadband exists.

Edited by deleted (Fri 13-Jul-18 19:57:01)