Someone prepared to switch around may find Alt Nets , on first glance , are cheaper , but they are in dire need of income to offset the huge losses / debt interest they face , being initially the same price or more expensive than the incumbents ( if they are to ever pay down the debt ) isn’t going to help their pretty poor take up rates, the initial introductory prices are not going to be sustainable, BT on the other hand are a mature operator and can’t really discount FTTP against the FTTC price without upsetting those that can’t get FTTP , what’s more BT have to justify how a price is arrived at to Ofcom , Alt Nets don’t get any Ofcom ‘interference’ on these things
….obviously anyone who puts price first and foremost may take a chance on an Alt Nets , after all if the Alt Net folds and goes out of business , or is taken over by someone you don’t want , the customer may simply shrug their shoulders, and move on , the potential to be out of service or moved to someone else is worth taking the risk , after all the option to switch back to somewhere else remains, but the price Alt Nets charge now is not sustainable in the long run , you may say ‘big deal , it’s cheaper today and that’s all I care about’ , which is fair enough.
FYI , City Fibre isn’t an ISP , it’s a network provider, so they don’t offer 900Mb for £29 at all , an ISP using them may charge that , but that’s the equivalent of saying Openreach 900Mb is £45, but it isn’t , it depends on the ISP , on City Fibre , Zen is £40 a month for 900Mb not £29
