Typical cost of Community Fibre Partnerships?

itm2

Does anyone have any experience of OpenReach's Community Fibre Partnerships? I was wondering if anyone could give an example of the cost of any programme which they've been involved with?

I live in West London. While my local exchange has been fibre-enabled, many of the street boxes have not. OpenReach have no current plans to upgrade them, mainly because Virgin Media offer a fibre service in the area so OpenReach don't see a large enough potential demand, and hence not enough money in it for them (I got that info direct from OpenReach).

As a Virgin customer since the end of last year, I can safely say that they have offered the least reliable broadband service I have encountered since I first had a broadband connection in 2001. A couple of their engineers have told me that their network struggles with the load, particularly at peak times, and that is one of the main causes of the frequent outages. So the fact that Virgin has a monopoly in fibre broadband supply round here is pretty annoying

chamelion

Did you get anything done? 

Zellah

The "typical cost" of a CFP scheme is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. For example, for a CFP covering say 20 properties then it wouldn't be unusual to see costs of £50k quoted. For 200 properties you could easily be looking at £200k plus. Its really a unique/bespoke build cost, its going to be different in every case.

itm2

I was given 2 quotes by OpenReach: 31 premises for £13,754, 149 premises for £25,178. I couldn't generate enough interest locally for the up-front investment