What was the approx. cost per premises for your neighbours CFP? Do you think your previous FoD made a material cost difference?

Clearly from a “new” construction perspective it would be a whole lot easier for OR to deploy to the additional properties served from the splitter node and you’d expect that to be reflected in the costs somehow. Or maybe not …

Edited by Pheasant (Wed 12-May-21 11:18:02)

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What was the approx. cost per premises for your neighbours CFP?

They don't know yet - not even an indicative quote. One of the neighbours is organising it, and last heard back that they said they needed to send out a surveyor.

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Do you think your previous FoD made a material cost difference?

I certainly hope it will. All they need to do is to put some more CBTs in the footway boxes, and connect them back to the splitter at the end of the road.

Now you mention it, that makes more sense from a future-proofing perspective. Does it potentially even mean that if I wanted to convert my FTTP over to point-to-point leased line one day, there might already be fibre capacity to do this locally? (not something I envisage ever needing to do, by the way.)

I was a little nervous that some of the participants in the linked order might change their minds, but thankfully no one blinked when it came time to commit in December.

In terms of your FoD expansion, I wonder if Openreach would actually implement that on top of the existing infrastructure, or build separate? It occurred to me that FoD projects will probably create some interesting anomalies in their network over time, with little pockets that differ from the broad-brush fibre city type deployments. (or maybe there's more commonality than I'm imagining, and this isn't a realistic concern.)

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Does it potentially even mean that if I wanted to convert my FTTP over to point-to-point leased line one day, there might already be fibre capacity to do this locally?

Not a hope really from an Openreach FTTP network perspective. They deliberately keep the two nets' commercially and physically separate and discrete. Never the twain shall meet.

The only FTTP network that I'm aware offer an EAD (leased line) equivalent is Gigaclear - and its not cheap according to their book prices for such - either comparatively or absolutely. GC is also a Point-2-Point type network rather than PON based (Openreach, City Fibre et al) network which makes a dedicated / uncontended circuit simpler to realise.

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In terms of your FoD expansion, I wonder if Openreach would actually implement that on top of the existing infrastructure, or build separate? It occurred to me that FoD projects will probably create some interesting anomalies in their network over time, with little pockets that differ from the broad-brush fibre city type deployments. (or maybe there's more commonality than I'm imagining, and this isn't a realistic concern.)

AFAIK, FoD is planned according to standard FTTP planning rules. They decide where splitters "should" go to cover the areas in question: when you order FoD they just install the subset of bits necessary to serve your property. For this reason, FoD may also enable one or more neighbours for FTTP - those served by the same CBT.

(That wasn't the case prior to March 2018, when FoD would only enable a single property)

Hi Guys,
I was considering getting the quote then survey done but my folks told me that last weekend there were 2 vans in our street from a company beginning with A doing a survey to do with improving broadband on our street as it isnt great.
We are in the very very very north of Scotland and my folks couldnt remember the company name but I was wondering if anyone here knew who would be doing surveys on behalf of openreach possibly so I can try and figure out if its a gov initiative or something a neighbour is getting checked out.

Fingers crossed its gov related and its on the cards but I thought I would ask here.

Openreach have their own team of people to carry out survey work.

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We are in the very very very north of Scotland and my folks couldnt remember the

Are you north of Inverness or to the east of Inverness? In theory it could be an alternate network using a third party to do a survey.

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Openreach have their own team of people to carry out survey work.

Yeah I thought so but my folks were not very IT aware to say the least and I missed speaking them to find out more.

Are you north of Inverness or to the east of Inverness? In theory it could be an alternate network using a third party to do a survey.

Nah much further, up in the northern isles sadly. There are openreach crews but not sure if they outsource it for here for surveys, my folks said they thought there were not *local* as it were so probably contractors.

I have been looking into fttpoD for my house. Just wondered if the survey cost is the same from any of the providers? I have been quoted 275+ vat for the survey so is this what others have paid?

Are there any constraints with fttpoD with regards to speed increases from 330 at some point?

Sadly classed as urban so no gigabit vouchers available.

Thanks