Excellent result. Over on ISPReview, NotADog got exactly £2,620 as well, under the same circumstance.

I see £2290 "labour" less £665 "deduction" makes the £1625+VAT as advertised. Shame that BT and Cerberus then slap their fees on top - and your £250 survey fee already paid. Still, it's a very attractive price compared to standard quotes, even if you only get a couple of years benefit before native FTTP comes along.

Welcome to the club!

You must be chuffed. That's great result. Hopefully it won't take too long to build. Enjoy!

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Still, it's a very attractive price compared to standard quotes, even if you only get a couple of years benefit before native FTTP comes along.

It is indeed.

Will be interesting to see how Openreach will position FoD pricing longer term as the FTTP network infrastructure reaches a certain breadth and depth. There will almost certainly be a bigger pool of resource internally that can be deployed now too, that there wasn't a few years ago in its relative infancy.

Are you able to use DCMS funding to help pay this off ?

GBVS eligibility rules have changes since I did this, but I believe the OP would now need to be part of a group (so minimum 2 connection) and satisfy the 'rural' location criteria. Single connections aren't eligible as they once were.

Indeed, because I am not part of a group and didn't want to introduce that complexity I cannot make use of funding.

Plus, the near network trial explicitly excludes FoD "cluster" orders, so you'd probably be looking at a much higher cost to cover.

That's a shame.. but still hopefully a positive result for the OP - and hope they do in a reasonable timeframe.

I would have likely done the same (and probably paid unto around 5K) but instead managed to the whole village set up with FTTP at no cost.
Hence why I asked the question about DCMS funding.. since I empathise with the OP for hanging on through the process.

interesting - my view is the exact opposite there is now a smaller pool of resources to do such bespoke work such as fod as the Openreach Machine is now totally focussed on delivering its 6m FTTP coverage by 2025/226 - what will be interesting in the nex few days when Q3 results are in is whethey they are ahead, on track or behind (or on track because they pulled forward easier later premises) in the drive to 6m by 2026

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

interesting - my view is the exact opposite there is now a smaller pool of resources to do such bespoke work such as fod as the Openreach Machine is now totally focussed on delivering its 6m FTTP coverage by 2025/226 - what will be interesting in the nex few days when Q3 results are in is whethey they are ahead, on track or behind (or on track because they pulled forward easier later premises) in the drive to 6m by 2026

Your figures are very out of date. They've already exceeded 5m properties. The target is currently 25m by end of 2026.

Edited by candlerb (Tue 01-Feb-22 13:34:52)