Not mentioned because there's no guarantee that they'll use it. If they decide that traditional ducting is the best long-term solution in your particular area, then that's what they'll specify. Equally, if there are existing poles then they might just string along those.

Be aware that fibre does not necessarily follow the path of copper. Copper goes to the local exchange; fibre goes to a fibre aggregation node and from there to the nearest large "head end" exchange, which may well be in the opposite direction.

In any case, good luck with the quote, and let us know how it comes back!

Will do, thanks. Clearly not a simple "menu price" issue!!!!

In reply to a post by ConsumersFriend:

Will update once we see the USO costs - what hasn't been mentioned in any of the responses is the advances BTOR have made in cable installation that greatly reduces costs in semi-rural/rural locations (ie those not needing substantial road closures & hefty civils costs) including the use of the likes of ditch-witches & armoured fibre cabling to allow rapid deployment along verges without needing ducting.

If anyone is going to use a Ditch Witch (something like a C24X) then they would be putting in ducting as direct in ground cabling really is not the way to go these days.

john

really unhelpful as indicating cost figures bear no resemble to the actual figures that might be presented - unless you think openreach / BT work for free

these figures are unhelpful , ,misleading , not context and dont bear any resemblence -- all they do is provide a mis conception to the asker which he than has to try and work out once the real figure has landed

Cool beans

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

john

really unhelpful as indicating cost figures bear no resemble to the actual figures that might be presented - unless you think openreach / BT work for free

these figures are unhelpful , ,misleading , not context and dont bear any resemblence -- all they do is provide a mis conception to the asker which he than has to try and work out once the real figure has landed

I personally found John's post informative as usual and as he said "costs will only be known after a full survey has been carried out"

For what seems like a similar installation ( if there ever is such a thing) in a rural area I had a desk top quote described as well north of £100K all down to me as we are quite remote and there are no other properties "passed"

In reply to a post by crule:

For what seems like a similar installation ( if there ever is such a thing) in a rural area I had a desk top quote described as well north of £100K all down to me as we are quite remote and there are no other properties "passed"

Sorry to hear that.

In reply to a post by crule:

For what seems like a similar installation ( if there ever is such a thing) in a rural area I had a desk top quote described as well north of £100K all down to me as we are quite remote and there are no other properties "passed"

Mine didn't even have one as, it needed a field survey. Which now going down the cfp route ....

Yes, I likewise found John's post to be informative - frankly we need more transparency as to the costs of broadband especially as there are now so many taxpayer funded schemes making contributions towards the push to expand fibre, so my thanks to John for his useful input.