So I thought it would be worth sharing my experience of the fttp trial.
Last year, openreach laid a fttp cable about half a mile down a road on which we are the only property. Great - we don't have fast internet here so we have the trial a go, and signed up in January.
A month later the installer came, said no, sent a surveyor. He turned up a month later, said no another surveyor was needed. Another few weeks on and he came up with a plan to install.
But... This plan was too expensive and so we were asked to pay about £1100 for a test rod that MIGHT work, failing that it would be probably double that again for overhead work. We would have to pay for this. Now I totally get why Plusnet wouldn't be willing to cover this - it's clearly not commercial - and we obviously couldn't stump up this much either. Hence the trial was cancelled.
Buy my point is, I can stand in my kitchen and see the fibre nodes a few metres from the window. How can openreach justify rolling out half a mile of cable, yet the last 5 metres is too expensive? And, has anyone else had this problem?
Quite frankly, more of a than a question!
