A shame about the vouchers and the costs coming out as high as they did. I can’t see that flying either. I think you’d be doing well to get a 30% take up.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

At last the quote came back. Openreach expanded the scope to 57 properties (including an adjacent road), and the quote is £57K.

Wow, and this is in your road and a neighbouring road where you already have fibre via FTTPoD?

Yep.

I must be missing something as surely most of the hard work was done when your FTTPoD was installed, its as if they are not taking that into account or worse still trying to load the CFP to reclaim costs for work that has already been done. I personally would challenge the cost and state I didn't believe the price took into consideration the existing infrastructure, a friend asked me to look at their CFP costings and it was clear they hadn't with theirs so I suggested this to a friend and Openreach did reduce the price by about £20K although it did delay the process by 8 weeks.

Edited by deleted (Sun 22-Aug-21 11:03:56)

I just had confirmation from Cerberus that our Audit, and Commissioning tasks have completed. Just a matter of waiting for the end user appointment now. As the lead in a linked order of 14 properties, I'm told we'll be the first to get connected. Hopefully not long now.

Received a call out of the blue yesterday morning from an Openreach engineer telling me he was on his way to do our fibre install. (very surprising on a bank holiday, too!)

Drop wire replaced with hybrid cable, some very neat external cabling down the soffits into the house for the ONT, and service up in a couple of hours.

Linked FTTPoD order originally raised at the end of September 2020. Will be interesting to see how long the other 13 houses take to get theirs installed. Very pleased with the result.

4 OR vans today with aload of engineers on estate putting what looks like fibre cable on big rolls though underground chambers.

I'm amazed at how fast they SEEM to be doing this. They are hoping to have it live and commissioned by the middle of September.....would have been fine if they meant September 2022!

Edited by deleted (Wed 01-Sep-21 14:01:45)

LordVader, are you live yet?

Not yet, lots of OR van on the estate the past 2 weeks (3/4 vans everyday!). Think all the work is done installing all the CBT in the underground chambers, fibre all pulled though the estate.

Believe just waiting on testing/commissioning now. Will say it again amazed how quick OR have done this.

Yes, probs because OR have done it, not contractors which have done most of the rollout around here.