But what as me confused about this arrangement is that in order to get to my pole they would have passed 3 other poles. Where is the financial logic to pass a pole and not put the fibre node on there? If each pole had 12 properties attached to it then including my pole that is 48 people that could potentially get a full fibre connection. At £50 per property multiplied by 48, and with the £700 added for the FTTPoD order, I would have got a reduction of £3,100. So my bill adjusted would have been £7,135 +vat. That would have been a £1800 reduction. I would have paid less, another 36 people would have had access to full fibre, and I'm sure there would have been an over all reduction in work costs i.e. doing it all at one time vs coming out 4 times for each pole.
So how much extra work would it have been for them to have connected each pole up along the way vs going straight past it to reach my pole?
The logic is that in some cases they might pass 50 poles, or 50 underground Distribution Points.
It would be very time consuming and expensive to enable every single property passed between the Agg Node and the person ordering.
If they did that there would then be people asking why they stopped at your pole.
Why not keep going and do the next 10 poles seeing as you're in that street anyway.
OpenReach "passing" every property on the way to you wouldn't have reduced the cost.
They wouldn't simply deduct £50 for each property bringing the price down.
The cost of Labour/Stores/Civils would likely increase dramatically more than any small reduction from each premises passed.
It would take many more hours/days of Labour and lots more hardware (more Splitter Nodes and CBT's).
The old FTTPoD system only enabled the person who ordered.
The new system enables everyone on the same DP.
I think they struck the right balance.
FTTPoD diverts man power away from other areas.
They are attempting to cover millions of properties with the Fibre First rollout.
I'm not sure I'd want to pay for the rollout of FTTP for every single property along my fibre path anyway.