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Originally Posted by on in an hour!
VM has a budget per home passed for infil (at the moment C£350) this has been promised to be upped moving forward.
simply explained if the whole cost of expanding down a street that has ducting close by comes in on, or less than, £350 per house passed (and they have the capacity in the nearest cabinet) they will build it.
if they have to build a new cabinet then the price rises accordingly.
with this in mind a terraced street probably has more chance of infil than a cul-de-sac with only a few houses on it.
as regards the 'bidding war' you make mention of as to who gets the ducting that doesnt exist.
BT are duty bound to provide a line up to every new build home.
VM simply agree a price for the house builder to install the underground ducting as the development progresses and wire the properties as the houses get built.  |
You need to tell the major house builder I communicated with a couple of weeks back there is no bidding war, they seem somewhat confused on this matter in that they seem to think they sell the ducts to whomever pays them the most, whether BT, VM or an altnet.
As you may be aware the BT USO has a cost ceiling which a VM-only development will break.