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Black Sheep:
FTTP now reaches almost 435,000 premises and the orders are flowing in

Less than a year ago, it was taking us an average of 50 days to provision Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) orders. That’s well over double the industry service level agreement (SLA) of 18 days. In some cases we had people waiting up to 200 days.

We knuckled down together to turn things around. We’ve started to change the way we work, introducing new tools and equipment. And with sheer bloody-mindedness, our Infrastructure Delivery team, CIO team, and chief engineer team have hammered average provision time down by 50% to just 21 days.
Not only that, but we’ve reduced the workstack and tails too – and our FTTP network availability is now at 99.5%. That means that when a customer wants to place an order, 99.5% of the time we’ve got the capacity ready and waiting to make it happen – and the processes and approach in place to deliver it fast.

We still have work to do to get to the industry standard of 18 days, but with big improvements planned over the next year, we’re confident our customers will soon notice the difference.

Kim Mears
MD, Infrastructure Delivery

displaced:
This may be a daft question, but...

Does anyone know what, if any, slice of the high FTTP install/subscription cost is intended to suppress take-up in order to achieve this?

I suppose what I'm asking is, will the price come down to something reasonable for home users (think FTTC plus a premium) as OR's process improvements make provisioning faster and easier?  Or is it simply a case of FTTP being expensive because of its very nature?

ejs:
Regular FTTP costs the same per month as FTTC for the same bandwidth. It might have a higher installation cost, but it's only about £50 extra, comparable to the old FTTC managed installation.

It's FTTPoD (FTTP on Demand) that costs vast amounts more.

niemand:
Tricky to know how to comment on this  ;D

Black Sheep:
Try a positive slant for a change, Ignition ................ go on, it'll make you feel better. Try it.  ;) ;D

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