I have summarised the forum results so far.

It's still a small sample (7 results) and a very wide spread, but the median reduction in price after survey is 54%.

I have decided to go for the survey given some of the price reductions posted on this thread - my current quote is 7100+vat so I'm hoping for something nearer 3000 and will be using the voucher scheme. There seems to be a five week wait currently for the survey.

In reply to a post by brookheather:

There seems to be a five week wait currently for the survey.

There's also a 20 order limit per month for FTTPod.
If I were able to claim £3k and the install fee was in that ballpark I'd be tempted.

I'm sure I read they were going to increase the monthly limit to 100 per month in 2019.

I've sent a request to Cerberus Networks for a desktop survey quote, says lead time is up to two weeks so I don't imagine I'll know what my worst case estimated charge is for a while. After I get a desktop survey quote then I'll ask for an actual survey to be done and post the results. The reason I'm considering FTTPoD is because I'm getting tired of DLM and one of my lines having an intermittent fault which isn't enough to get an engineer yet but is enough to have not too long ago a fairly heavy banding and INP 8/delay 16ms on the downstream.

Thank you for that. I will take the plunge and hope my £18,600 build goes to at least half. I could probably in some bizarre way justify that as being part of the moving to a new house cost.

Thanks,

Steve

In reply to a post by nemeth782:

Mine just got updated:

Up or down?

Based on that quote, are you going ahead with the full survey?

In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by nemeth782:

Mine just got updated:

Up or down?

Based on that quote, are you going ahead with the full survey?

Previously they said they could not give a quote.

I was hoping for a figure more like £5-6k. Not going ahead with a full quote.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

I'm sure I read they were going to increase the monthly limit to 100 per month in 2019.

Yes it's published here:

Projected capacity for April 2019 to March 2020:
We are reviewing our projected capacity for both single and multiple project orders for the 2019/20 financial year and starting from Q1 (April to June 2019) we currently expect to be able to support 100 industry-wide FoD orders per calendar month.

We may need to apportion this capacity for single orders and multiple order projects to ensure that we can support CPs selling either type and we will advise further on this in due course. We also hope to be able to offer more capacity later in 2019/20 and will advise further when we can confirm our operational ability to manage additional demand.

My initial desktop quote came back as £8,000
As I'll be eligible for the voucher scheme I decided to go ahead with the full survey.
There does appear to be quite a wait, I placed the order on the 03/07 and I'm still waiting for the survey to be conducted. Cerberus have just notified that Openreach have escalated with the surveyors so hopefully some good news soon. A 50% reduction would be incredible but I'm not holding my breath yet.

G

I've only recently found out about the £3k voucher scheme, and i too am eligible!

I previously had a desktop quote from Cerebus for £2750 + VAT, does anyone know how the voucher works? Will i automatically get the full £3,000?

I guess the question im really asking is could I get an install completed for free or next to nothing?