Do you live in the outback cobber!? 😅

Did your employer pay that or some deal less as part of their umbrella agreement?

It would be cheaper for them to buy you a small one bedroom flat to use Monday to Friday!

In reply to a post by gorebrush:

My employer recently placed an order for FTTPoD for me through their wholesale agreement. I think I might have broken a few records: -

Final quote came out at over £135,000.

Oh well. FTTP Fibre First checker says "Not yet available". My area IS being built right now, with assurances from Openreach via my councillor that my street is definitely included.

I am in a no duct, no pole street, with abolsutely zero alternatives.

I'm surprised your employer was able to get a quote as normally if you're in scope (as you say above) they wouldn't normally bother quoting. We've heard on here about a lot of streets being missed on the commercial rollouts because of existing cables being direct in ground.

In reply to a post by MHC:

It would be cheaper for them to buy you a small one bedroom flat to use Monday to Friday!

Ha... around here they start at about £190k...

In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by gorebrush:

My employer recently placed an order for FTTPoD for me through their wholesale agreement. I think I might have broken a few records: -

Final quote came out at over £135,000.

Oh well. FTTP Fibre First checker says "Not yet available". My area IS being built right now, with assurances from Openreach via my councillor that my street is definitely included.

I am in a no duct, no pole street, with abolsutely zero alternatives.

I'm surprised your employer was able to get a quote as normally if you're in scope (as you say above) they wouldn't normally bother quoting. We've heard on here about a lot of streets being missed on the commercial rollouts because of existing cables being direct in ground.

Yeah this is a big worry for me. I since contacted Openreach via their Fibre First portal, and despite my area being built now, they did come back with July 2025 as a date for building my street. So that's... something? I guess?

In the meantime, with no alternative in sight, I took up the Starlink £99 rural offer and I am actually pretty excited about it - hoping it will work out and get me over 200Mbps... That should tide me over nicely until then.

We should learn tomorrow about the upcoming changes to FTTPoD:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/05/openre...

It has already been announced that there will be a new charge of £2,932 (+VAT) for "a full, detailed survey, covering the network route from the end customer premises to the serving head end exchange. It is anticipated that CPs will request this survey where a high build charge has been quoted by the FOD NBE, and there is an expectation that a full detailed survey will result in an improved network design and an adjusted cost for the FOD Build Charge."

The problem they are trying to solve is that 90% of people pay the ~£300 survey fee but then drop out of the order when they see the final price - either because it's higher than the original estimate, or they were hoping it to drop further than it did.

But I can't see how this change will make any difference, unless the initial NBEs (Non-Binding Estimates) effectively become binding on the customer at time of placing the order, and the only way to challenge them and/or drop out of the order is to pay nearly £3K.