In the short term , should the overall area get FTTP , then the overhead addresses may well get FTTP much sooner than the DIG area addresses , even though they are ‘neighbouring’ addresses, currently OR are prioritising addresses that will have a relatively small ‘build’ cost per dwelling.
To give an indication of the current OR policy , ( these are not real costings ) , if a pole serves 10 addresses and to get a FTTP CBT onto that pole will cost £200, because the infrastructure already exists, that’s clearly £20 per dwelling , and well within the allowed budget, if a neighbouring 10 addresses are within the DIG area , and that would require £6000 worth of construction ( new ducts , joinboxes etc ) then the £600 cost per dwelling is massively over budget, that’s assuming the provision of poles in this area would be unacceptable to the locals .
If it were your money , and you had £6k to spend , do you enable 300 homes overhead or 10 homes with new underground infrastructure ?
Those out of budget addresses are ‘parked’ to be reviewed at some later date once the easy/cheap properties are mainly done and FTTP is earning sufficient revenue to fund more expensive areas ….if it were your business, wouldn’t you approach it in the same way ?
