In reply to a post by dect:

I'm sure by the time your existing contract comes to an end and if Zzoom and/or Openreach FTTP is available in your street you will have made a decision one way or the other.

Looking forward to what you decide to do, if anyone is running a book put me down for £10 on Plusnet FTTP

If I go for FTTP, you may be right, they do offer cheaper prices than Zzoomm, but I can't see myself moving to be honest.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

The alt net digging the other side of town have one price. £25/m for 900/900 FTTP. For 18 months and then £29 a month.

Zzoomm has 4

150Mb//s for £33, 450Mb/s for £44, 900Mb/s for £66 and 2000Mb/s for £99.
These speeds are the same up and down.

I wonder how many households will go for the 2000Mb/s, if it is a large family and there are good money going in then yes it may be worth it, but I also wonder how many will do it, just because they can. I realise that, 2000Mb/s is more for businesses.


The loop of fibre on the pole is still there, so I presume they did not touch it yesterday, they don't work on the weekend, I thought they would or at least Saturday just to get it don, but maybe they are thinking best to leave the weekend, so people have peace from the noise. Been ok here, but then they only dug one small trench and a hole by the pole. Where a friend live, they have been digging for the last 2 weeks.

Looking forward to what you decide to do, if anyone is running a book put me down for £10 on Plusnet FTTP

… and I’ll have a fiver each way on Luddite in the Indecision handicap at 3:30

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Looking forward to what you decide to do, if anyone is running a book put me down for £10 on Plusnet FTTP

… and I’ll have a fiver each way on Luddite in the Indecision handicap at 3:30

That genuinely made me laugh.

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Looking forward to what you decide to do, if anyone is running a book put me down for £10 on Plusnet FTTP

… and I’ll have a fiver each way on Luddite in the Indecision handicap at 3:30

That genuinely made me laugh.

You’re welcome.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

You’re welcome.

A little entertainment in this thread. A telecomms company doing streetworks and them being deferred: unprecedented.

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I know many of us have spent large amounts of money to get Openreach FTTP infrastructure to our front doors but a question I keep asking myself is, would people pay the same sort of money for an altnet to do the same?

In reply to a post by dect:

I know many of us have spent large amounts of money to get Openreach FTTP infrastructure to our front doors but a question I keep asking myself is, would people pay the same sort of money for an altnet to do the same?

I might if the altnet was a neutral ISP provider, e.g. Cityfibre. Unlikely for a single ISP network. (e.g. Virgin Media, Toob etc).

Businesses do pay ECCs to various leased line providers other than Openreach.

But for a residential service from an Altnet with no choice of ISP? I wouldn't.

For some reason it seems mentally easier for me to justify paying for Openreach infrastructure than it does for an altnet. I think a good point has been made by both you and @candlerb that once you have paid your money you would be locked into a single provider and that would be a showstopper for a lot of people. I think we have all grown older with Openreach (including its previous names) being a constant, so it seems less risky.