Alternative FTTP providers.

Dandle

Dandle

Dandle

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I am currently with BT and have a FTTP 200mb line to my house but its costing me around £65 a month for my rental and broadband. I have tried looking at other prices as I would be happy to drop to 80mb which in theory opens up all the FTTC providers. Except I have now found out it does't, FTTC isnt available in an area with FTTP. So apart from dropping down to 80mb infinity does anyone know any other FTTP providers? I have had a price back from Zen but they are dearer than BT.
 
I just switched from BT Infinity yesterday because it is an absolute joke! They deny throttling and controlling traffic but this is completely untrue. After some resource I decided to move to Sky Fiber. Not only have I heard good things but also I was paying £67 per month with BT, with Sky for Line, anytime calls and 40mb fiber it is only costing me £30.40 for 6 months then £40.40 the following 6 months.
 
What a completely biased and useless first post in the context that the OP asked for.

FWIW, I have BT infinity and I don't find that I ever get throttled.

OP, if you have true FTTP then that piece of fibre will be owned by BT and most other operators won't be able to touch it (unlike the monopoly rules that said companies can use the BT copper).

Also, £65/month for a 200mbps connection is cheap! Can you cancel the landline piece and just use your mobile for calls?
 
I hear on TBB that Plusnet will sell you their FTTC GEA matched services over FTTP lines. Easiest bet is to surely just downgrade to BT Infinity 2?
 
Jez said:
I hear on TBB that Plusnet will sell you their FTTC GEA matched services over FTTP lines. Easiest bet is to surely just downgrade to BT Infinity 2?
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He does not have that choice... people seem to be getting FTTC and FTTP confused..

He is obviously connected directly to the exchange and not to a cab hence he can only get FTTP and BT only do two packages according to their website..

Unlimited BT Infinity 3 package – Up to 200Mb download speeds
Unlimited BT Infinity 4 package – Up to 300Mb download speeds

As he is not connected to a Cabinet he has no choice but pick one of these as Infinity 2 is FTTC.

As FTTP is in its infancy I would imagine the choice vs cost is not going to be competative right now... £65 is not bad for a 200mb connection.
 
I am not confused at all, this forum is useless sometimes!

Plusnet will sell their FTTC GEA matched products over BT FTTP lines, and BT will also sell Infinity options 1&2 over their FTTP lines (Therefore all 4 BT infinity tiers are available to Dandle).

There are quite probably other options too, as the FTTP line is open to other ISP's, its simply down to those ISP's as to whether they provision over that type of line.

As for Dandle, his easiest option for reduced cost is to downgrade from Infinity tier 3 to a lower tier.
 
Then I dont get what the OP's problem is...

his only option is to downgrade... he is not going to get a 200mb connection from another ISP for the same price as Infinity 2 which would be the next cost down..

I apolgiese as I did not know BT did option 1 & 2 on FTTP lines as they dont advertise it which seems strange as most people would not even know they could get it and loose custom..
 
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Plusnet dont advertise it either, i am not sure why.

To be fair, FTTP lines are very few and far between :)
 
we all know why, as it would allow the cheaper choice for customers. They are sneakly leaving customers with just their top tier instead.
 
djferrick said:
Doesn't suprise me. BT advisor blatantly lied to me and told me I could only take BT inifinty for the first 18 months after cabinet goes FTTC in May
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I heard that very same thing from a PlusNet employee regarding certain cabinets, so it seems that BT have been lying to quite a few people. :p
 
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