In reply to a post by philjohn:

Zen also offer BT GEA FTTP packages

Yep. See my reply to MrSafffon a couple of minutes ago.

Thank you all for your input which is very helpful. So the way I understand it, if I have FTTC available now, when the FTTP product becomes available I can choose whether to remain with FTTC and my current ISP or I can switch to FTTP where the choice of ISP is currently limited. However I can keep my 'copper and aluminium' telephone service alongside FTTP, although that would incur an additional charge.

Does that sound correct?

The Plusnet �trial� would probably be the cheapest option, once up and running they will allow you to cancel your line rental in lieu of an extra £2.50 charge per month.

They only offer 40/10 and 80/20 options, same as FTTC and you also have to be an existing customer to join the �trial� (it�s been running 6 or 7 years!). If you cancel the line rental you obviously wont have a phone service but can use a VoIP service instead. You could migrate your FTTC to them now and then have them migrate you to FTTP when it�s available to order.

If you use BT retail I think they give you the option of either maintaining the copper line for the phone or you can use �Fibre Voice Acces� - you plug your phones into the fibre termination device. Either way you still have to pay the line rental part.

Basically
FTTC - Offered by many ISP's
FTTP - Limited ISP's
if you are with BT you can easily upgrade to FTTP from FTTC
if you are with another isp it depends on if they offer FTTP,

Try reading this and see if it helps.
FTTP Info-SFC

In reply to a post by Fumbledore:

Thank you all for your input which is very helpful. So the way I understand it, if I have FTTC available now, when the FTTP product becomes available I can choose whether to remain with FTTC and my current ISP or I can switch to FTTP where the choice of ISP is currently limited. However I can keep my 'copper and aluminium' telephone service alongside FTTP, although that would incur an additional charge.

Does that sound correct?

Nearly correct, depending on exactly what you mean about keeping the landline phone service. The short answer is "yes", but there is likely to be no additional charge. However if your have both line and FTTC with the same ISP at the moment and move to a different one for FTTP, then keeping your line rental with the current one might end up with some increase in the overall cost.

Then there are the Plusnet and VOIP options that have been explained by others.

Simples. !Not!

What post code would that be ?

Thank you all yet again. Great to get so much feedback. Yes I am with PlusNet which is why I was interested in their FTTP trial as that would be my simplest route although not exploiting the full potential of a FTTP connection. I do not doubt for a minute whichever route I go along there will be a charge made, but so be it. The idea of two phone lines incorporated with the Fibre line sounds very elegant - if I went for BT would I be able to port my existing number to them for one of the lines? Does the second line have to have another number and if so does that increase the cost of the telephone service via FVA?
Interestingly, another resident down our street, is with Sky for their broadband etc, and enquired as to whether they would be able to stay with them for FTTP service. Although their website says they do not offer FTTP service I notice they have set one up in York called Ultra Fast Optic (UFO) so it looks as though the larger ISPs are probably going to be offering a product or waiting to install their own fibre networks such as TalkTalk.
Thanks again for the input.

UFO in York is a joint Sky and TalkTalk venture independent of Openreach FTTx. (It may use some Openreach dark fibre on a normal commercial basis for data transport but that's a different thing entirely. Equally, it may not).

Sky and Talk Talk both still stubbornly and hypocritically refuse to provision on Openreach FTTP.

This must be increasingly costing them lost customers who happen to move to one of the growing number of new OR FTTP only estates.

The core network for York is CityFibre network so unlikely to involve any Openreach dark fibre at all.