My understanding is that for native FTTP (i.e. not FTTPoD) the products available (40 Mbps DS / 2 Mbps US, 40 Mbps DS / 10 Mbps US and 80 Mbps DS / 20 Mbps US) are sold at exactly the same price as the FTTC products.
My understanding too.
In addition, higher speed tiers are available, known as "Infinity 3" and "Infinity 4", at 200Mbps and 300Mbps - at higher price points obviously.
The only downside is that, even though the slower tiers have identical pricepoints to FTTC, very few retail ISPs bother to sell FTTP-based services at all. BT themselves are one seller, as is Zen. Plusnet will connect you, but as part of a trial rather than a normal part of their service.
Some more pictures of my pole if anyone is interested. http://imgur.com/a/xZwOG
That looks like the infrastructure for a FTTP deployment, to me.
Ooops - I missed the update with the new pictures...
The sixth picture, where all three pole-top boxes are visible, gives the best view. The upper-left "thing" appears to be the usual bottle-shaped FTTP manifold to me.
As far as I can make out, the only bit of cable going into the green splitter comes from the manifold. It ought to have a yellow stripe, to indicate fibre ... so is there any other yellow-striped cable in the vicinity?