**Rant and Investigation**
I've been making a nuisance of myself in other places. But it gets crowded over there and instead of leaping on other peoples threads I thought I might open a thread here about it.
Having been reading the threads in another place by people getting FTTPoD products installed it seems I mistakenly thought they were residential customers who were paying some extra money to have it installed.
Two ISP's were mentioned offering FTTPoD products, Cerberus and FluidOne.
Someone had mentioned that to make an order the exchange had to be FTTP. This seems not to be the case, but I'd gone and looked at my local exchange and find its the only exchange of the 6 or 7 exchanges around here that doesn't have FTTP or FOD listed. So this annoyed me.
Someone else said they had pestered one of the ISP's and said that ISP got Openreach to open up FOD in the area. So I made a post about trying to buy, or at least get a quote for FOD. This is when I run in to the problem that it appears that the 2 ISP's, as of now, are only selling to business customers.
The interesting part is that some of the new price quotes for FOD arent that massive and I would see it as an investment. People buy big OLED TV's and high powered PC's that could easily come to a combine total of around what FOD on average seems to come to. So for a lot of people FOD is within their price range.
So I have been reading up on the information about FOD. I noticed that there is due to be price changes coming at the end of the month.
https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefingarticles/nga200717.dohttps://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/10/openreach-unveil-new-uk-pricing-fttp-demand-ultrafast-broadband.htmlhttps://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7858-new-openreach-fibre-on-demand-pricing-may-make-service-more-attractiveIt is obvious that the Openreach pricing is an attempt to get more people to order FOD. Yet as of now the ISP's that sell FOD are only selling to Business customers.
I hope when the 2 companies named update their pricing they will consider finding a way to offer it to residential customers too. Apart from my own frustrations, they are missing out on a lot of money.
I'm still going to be digging around and keeping my eye out on the situation.
P.S. One of the strange things is there is a rumour BT Business is soon introducing FTTPod under the label "Infinity Build to Order". I wonder what effect this will have on Cerberus and FluidOne as the market will get smaller. I suspect if BT Business start selling it that they will be the first port of call.