Openreach and BT full fibre overbudget?

[iniltous]

Obviously not my place to say what anyone else should spend their money on and what they shouldn’t, but as you say you recently bought this house , if the vendor had required £400 more than the offer they accepted from you   but the address already had FTTP installed , would you still have proceeded with the purchase ?

[Atheniangr]

Obviously I would.

Even now I would pay the 400 for FTTP as long as someone promises me that the cost will be that and not spiral and secondly that will be on time.

What you have to understand is due to heavy workload I left my wife to deal with all of that, since when i work I dont have time to wait 50mins on the phone and when I finish work lines are off.

And also we dont have internet in the meantime for the last 3months, signal is poor and dongle drops all the time and when on is in the region of 6mb. 

If I already had FTTC and I was waiting for FTTP I would not mind also if 400 is the only resort for me to get FTTP I will pay them.

But that doesnt change the fact that they should not advertise it as available but as waiting list product, so if you pay you can have it, or as I have faced in the past, gather neighbourhood signatures of ppl that want the service and come back to us.

Now if the junction box is able to serve multiple properties by splitting lines I can ask the neighbourhood if anyone wants FTTP and divide the installation cost and be more attractive to OR as an 'investment' but noone asked me and the 400 refered once and then they started to hide it as info under the carpet, like saying not even that is not enough... 

we will see, the aim is now to have some internet until we start chasing again for installation.

[iniltous]

I quite agree it seems odd that an order is taken and then the possibility of charges is made known, but that’s the way it is.

TBH , ‘Waiting list’ list is a term more appropriate to FTTC when the serving ‘fibre cabinet’ has no spare ports , but in the case of FTTC waiting list , no order can be made , the Openreach/Wholesale system doesn’t allow an order to be raised in these circumstances , so it’s a completely different situation to you where a FTTP order was taken and only then the subject of charges becomes known.
The overwhelming number of FTTP provides are effectively free ( more accurately the costs are acceptable to Openreach being within the allowed budget ) which suggests something out if the ordinary about your address .

There is no reason to suspect the £400 contribution will increase so the decision becomes if the cost is worth it to you to get FTTP , and as it’s your individual ‘connection’ from the CBT , it’s difficult to see how getting others interested in also taking FTTP can aggregate the costs between a few customers