In reply to a post by Deft:

I'm now in that position, but the differential cost was massive. Trooli are doing our village and they've just dug up my front garden / driveway to install new ducting to get to the pavement. Our telephone lines are underground and look to be directly buried / there's no existing ducting to re-use. That will be true for almost everyone in my street I think. Cost to me, £780. Yes, that's not for the average consumer I suppose. I just don't see Openreach doing new ducting for everyone on the street anytime soon? Previously I paid £250 just for a survey for FTTPoD. That quote was £11k or something (but will have included all the associated works from the node).

Thats quite interesting as our whole road is direct buried with no ducts from the pavements to the houses and yet Trooli are quoting £130 to install.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Nope, it is still parked outside, it has the stabilisers down, I noticed this morning. So I presume it is broken down, i doubt very much if they would leave it otherwise.

Does sound like it.

In reply to a post by Alucidnation:

In reply to a post by Deft:

Trooli are doing our village and they've just dug up my front garden / driveway to install new ducting to get to the pavement. Our telephone lines are underground and look to be directly buried / there's no existing ducting to re-use. That will be true for almost everyone in my street I think. Cost to me, £780.

Thats quite interesting as our whole road is direct buried with no ducts from the pavements to the houses and yet Trooli are quoting £130 to install.

Wow, big difference between you paying £130 and Deft paying £780, I wonder how the two jobs differ to justify that.

There must be some unseen (by the poster) issue. I suspect hugely inflated prices are offered when they ‘don’t fancy the job’.

I met someone this week who had been quoted 18k to get service via Trooli … and yet they have a CBT in the footway across the street , where the current copper DP is, so a road crossing (30mph residential Rd, light traffic) then about 40m of duct through a pavement. ……… don’t seem right to me.





edit for addition of missed word

Edited by Zarjaz (Sun 11-Sep-22 20:10:48)

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

There must be some unseen (by the poster) issue. I suspect hugely prices are offered when they ‘don’t fancy the job’.

I met someone this week who had been quoted 18k to get service via Trooli … and yet they have a CBT in the footway across the street, where the current copper DP is, so a road crossing (30mph residential Rd, light traffic) then about 40m of duct through a pavement. ……… don’t seem right to me.

Until this thread I hadn't realised that some altnet's charge this sort of money for the final part of the installation when the service has already been provided to the street outside a property. People raise their eye's about FTTPod costs but I am more surprised about this.

It makes total sense though. Whether its Openreach or AltNet, they will have a budget per premises for connection. If the cost to connect is seriously above that threshold they either will walk away or propose ECCs to the customer.

Edit:
Have a read of this article...

Openreach and the Case of a Tricky FTTP Transition Problem

"How big is this issue? The need for ECCs like this is rare (i.e. homes or businesses that cost over £1,000 to install). Openreach indicated to us that the figure could equate to under 1% of their total full fibre footprint, which is still a lot of properties. If we simply assume the figure to be 1%, then that would be up to 72,000 premises out of their current 7.2 million premises coverage, or up to 250,000 premises once they hit 25 million."

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 11-Sep-22 18:18:55)

Interesting article, I did have to laugh at the comments as Buggs8 was there under the pseudonym 'Simon'

"Phil" is there too 😂

Edit: actually there's quite a few regulars from here commenting over there 😀

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 11-Sep-22 22:53:58)

That seems a good deal. I'd heard other quotes of about £600 from a colleague at work, though not sure of the details.
It took two guys about 4 hours of hard graft in the baking sun to do my ducting, so feels reasonable enough to me. No doubt Openreach will rock up next week and dig everyone's gardens up for free....!

No crystal ball so better for you to have Trooli now than wait for another provider sometime maybe in the future

Edited by deleted (Mon 12-Sep-22 13:35:37)