I would imagine the full quote would be closer to the £10,000 mark than £8,000, either way £8,000 is still not worth the cost for the time being.

Thanks for that, I am well aware that linked orders is very unstable ground.

Probably the biggest issue I have is that I'm not convinced there is a huge appetite for FTTP where I live (unless it's installed for free, of course). We get 'superfast' via FTTC but due to our distance from the cabinet speeds are around 20 Mbps - however I suspect for most of my neighbours they don't really notice it and wouldn't want to pay more.

I've gone for the survey and will see what the final price is for installation. I'll then find out the other houses involved and take it from there.

Once I have the price I will of course post it on here for info.

I've just got my desktop quote from Cerberus at £21,000 + VAT, with 4 passed premises.

Are you going for full survey? If you didn't get it in today you may unfortunately be caught by the temporary suspension of FTTPoD orders from 20th September.

I have an openreach engineer visiting my house tomorrow (September 20th), i placed my order on September 4th and the desktop quote was £7,600.00 ex VAT.

For me it needs to be less than £3000 ex VAT to consider going ahead. All seems to be going through a lot quicker than i expected!

If the price is right i'm going to end up with min 6 months left on my FTTC contract along with FTTP!

Nice, that sounds fast.

I'm waiting for a call from an engineer to arrange a visit. I hope they don't just turn up unexpectedly. I heard from Cerberus Networks last week that I should be expecting a call from the surveyor (an engineer I assume) to arrange a visit, to be reviewed with Cerberus Networks this Friday (or sooner if I get a call, as I need to inform them once I have heard from the surveyor).

Your estimated quote isn't far from my estimated quote.

Edited by Ixel (Thu 20-Sep-18 00:25:19)

Openreach surveyors are not engineers.

It is a role they may have once done, but they are no longer �on the tools�.

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification!

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In reply to a post by 1nfern0:

Ahh, thats encouraging. The Surveyor mentioned he wasn't looking for blockages but I'd assumed it'd get picked up later down the line.

How long did you wait for the final quote to come through after survey?

G

IIRC, just over 2 Weeks

Does anyone have a view on current timescales for final quote production?

My survey was completed on 3 September, but I'm wondering if/how much the recently announced suspension of new orders from OpenReach is affecting final quote timescales - is it now stretching to a month or much longer?

I'm due to get my weekly update from Cerberus after today.

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Does anyone have a view on current timescales for final quote production?

It all depends on variables such as workload of Openreach staff, complexity of your install, findings of Openreach Survey etc. Questions which only Openreach can answer...