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[tbailey2]

Openreach, the wholesale arm of telecommunications giant BT, has announced that it is upgrading its top fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) product from 330Mb/s to 1Gb/s, though its availability is still sorely limited.
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Selley's statement includes a tacit admission that the new speeds - indeed, the entire FTTP network - is still not available to all. While the company has announced plans to expand the network, pledging to hit two million premises by 2020, at present it reaches a mere 327,000 homes and businesses across the UK. For those lucky enough to be included, pricing has been set at a £500 connection fee and £55 per month for the 500Mb/s tier or £80 per month for the 1Gb/s tier.

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[kitz]

£55 per month will be doable for those who want 500Mbps, compared to £58 (inc line rental) which is what Virgin charges.
Installation cost is steep though, so that alone could price it out of the home market.     Just need more FTTP first.

[ejs]

It's starting with a half-price special offer for the installation charge, for the first year.
https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefingarticles/nga200316.do

[Chrysalis]

people on high salaries with a desire for such speeds I expect would pay these fee's.  Not a mass market product tho.

[niemand]

Would buy, but as I'm not in a trial area or a taxpayer funded BDUK area no can do 

[Weaver]

Would buy, at half the cost of what I'm paying now, per month for 140 times the downstream speed. But then I'd have to get a much, much faster router. And some actual fibre.

Last month’s bill was ~£160, plus some 3G and a few other small items on top which brought it to over £200 contribution to the RevK’s cider fund. (Beer too? Certainly likes his uisge beatha a lot.)

[Mark07]

Interesting news.

Can anyone clarify if the £500 connection fee is the only outlay? Or is there potentially still massive "install" charges to get the fibre to you?

[gt94sss2]

This is only available if you are in a native FTTP area - its not linked to their 'FTTP on Demand' offerings.