Really looks like this is the end of FTTPoD - We made the choice to move to a leased line for our business with SSE in the end, i'm glad i didn't waste £250 on a survey seeing some of these results!

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He sounded helpful, it's a shame that the quote came back more than expected but as other says it's probably the norm from now on.

Shame that I live right in-between two residential areas and there is only a small cluster of us (7-8) so there are no current plans for native FTTP and I can't imagine there will be in the future.

I'll post here when I get my survey results, wish me luck!

Any chance of gigabit voucher(s) to lessen the pain or are you considered ‘urban’?

👍 how’s progress on your circuit build?

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👍 how’s progress on your circuit build?

You'll be seeing a thread soon - But Spolier: All very good news indeed

😎 Excellent! Looking forward to the thread 👍

Bad luck Your quote came back in on the same day as eded2020. That was also a higher price than desktop, although nowhere near as high as yours.

We've seen a few desktop quotes of £5,100 or £5,200 recently. Even when the surveyor said it's a straightforward installation, the final price came out at £9K - or in your case much worse.

I think Openreach should stop giving out £5K desktop quotes when there's little chance of the final price matching that.

Unfortunately I was told the voucher scheme is only applicable for group orders. The properties that would gain FTTP from me ordering it, is my only neighbour and no one else, and he isn't interested in it.

I can't say I'm unhappy that I ordered the survey, I was dying to see if it was a possibility but at that price it's not! I am more upset at the original quote vs final price!

I couldn't agree more.

Ahh yes I see that they’ve tweaked the scheme rules, since I did it. Now it’s only group orders that qualify.

FWIW, you *can* have linked orders which aren't direct neighbours. It would require a resurvey though, and the total cost would be slightly higher for installing two CBTs instead of one - assuming the two CBTs are in the footprint of the same splitter.

In your case, you said it was a cluster of 7 or 8 properties, so there still aren't many neighbours available to chip in.

I guess 4G is the next thing to look into.