How about £2323 for some superfast?

The story is on the dailyfail, worth a read for a laugh if nothing else, quoted by ZEN.

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In reply to a post by derekdel:

The story is on the dailyfail, worth a read for a laugh if nothing else, quoted by ZEN.

I wonder why DM bothered to run that story. At least Openreach gave them the option, they could have just said no (and DM would have had nothing to write about).

£2323 for an FTP connection is not that unreasonable. Could be useful if it avoids the need for a separate office an few miles away.

And it would be classed as a business expense for her IT consultancy - so VAT reclaimed and would be around the equivalent of a consumer paying £1000 (or so) out of their own pocket.

Believe that it is actually a street that has been given native GEA-FTTP by Suffolk project, rather than this being an order for fibre on demand. Reason why is part of the village has native FTTP available.

Why the £2k charge? Excess construction that can apply in cases where existing cable is directly buried across a property rather than ducted or fed by overhead cable.

As is normal this side of things appears not to be explored at all by the coverage.

Also the office five miles away almost certainly costs more than £2323 per annum in overall costs and lost time.

The Fail doesn't tell us whether or not they accepted the quote.

I would pay it. Still stuck on 2mbit Adsl.

"often losing connection when it rained or having ants invading the wiring."

There's your problem....

Makes me wonder if ants are disturbing existing copper wonder what they will do to the more fragile fibre?

Maybe ants, like sharks, are attracted to the electrical signals in the copper cable

Shame the story doesn't give any useful detail - but if it did it might not be much of a story.

The same process even applies to the provision of basic phone services. Whilst the supply of a copper pair is covered by a USO for a fixed cost, that's only up to a reasonable cost. (Which I seem to recall was deemed to be about 10 man-days of cost). Beyond that it's covered by excess construction costs.

One little bit of regulatory detail is that BT are not allowed to include excess construction costs as part of their capital exp[expenditure for the purposes of earning a regulated return.

nb. you can also get hit be these sort of costs (or worse) if you need to connect up to other utilities if excessive costs are involved. People seem to forget that broadband is a new utility. It just happens to be fortuitous that for many an acceptable service can be achieved over lines originally laid for phone services.

you can also get hit be these sort of costs (or worse) if you need to connect up to other utilities

One of my colleagues was quoted about £18K for installing gas to their property - the gas line runs to the newer houses to the rear of the property but has never been run to the older houses.