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lee111s

When FTTP on demand was available, the installtion cost ranged from around £500 to £2500 per property.

Here's the current pricing https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/pricing/loadProductPriceDetails.do?data=0WyIM7tTGGgucFf0dXUIWK4XSAplAmgrRZNg5Pk%2B5%2F%2BkRgB7BL4KNYn%2FlKx2YB4Qe6YShZ82RgLO%0AGLsH2e9%2Bmw%3D%3D

1500-1999m from the aggregation node will set you back to the tune of £6000.

marketraisen

Openreach can charge anything they want for a reason- theyre the only people capable of deploying the network, being funded significantly by the taxpayer makes life very easy for them aswell.

Time will tell how much of those numbers is blind profiteering, not that I blame them for it but in the long run they could be cutting their own throats.

Rather than compete, new technology will be implemented to circumvent the need for a guy on a ladder at all.

lee111s

The taxpayer hasn't spent that much in comparrison to Openreach. I think BDUK is around 1.1bn? Openreachh have already spent around 5bn on fibre alone, not taking into account the already owned copper network.

Some of the BDUk money has already been "clawed back", and it won't be top long before the take up of fibre services trigger even more claw back funds.

BT and EE have today pledged to spend a further 5 or 6bn on improving fibre and mobile networks.

The issue is, everyone wants tomorrows technolgoy, delivered yesterday, at last years prices.

onomatopoeia99

marketraisen wrote: »

Openreach can charge anything they want for a reason- theyre the only people capable of deploying the network, being funded significantly by the taxpayer makes life very easy for them aswell.

Openreach cannot charge what they want for wholesale line rental. OFCOM tell them what they can charge and are driving the price down year on year. It's £8.67/month inc VAT at present.

The current wholesale cost to supply a new conventional voice line is £46.09. I do not know if OFCOM control this price as well, but it is going continually downward. 10 years ago it was £88+VAT

JJ_Egan

<<<Openreach cannot charge what they want for wholesale line rental. OFCOM tell them what they can charge and are driving the price down year on year .>>

Just leaves the ISPs to drive up the cost year on year or less than a year .

littleboo

marketraisen wrote: »

Estimated by whom? Surely theres a source for the cost of these things?

There's plenty of sources, like here.

prowla

With my Virgin BB they gave me a discount to keep the phone line.
I never use the phone, though I did pick it up today as it rang as I was next to it; it was (of course) a cold caller.