Leased Line Construction Costs

[stewea]

Hi,

We are looking into having a 100Mb leased line install and wondered if we will have excess construction costs levied on us.

We have an ISDN30 for our telephones which is delivered by fibre, so there must be ducting in place from the exchange to our premises.

Has anyone who has been in this position before had a fibre leased line installed cheaper because of a fibre ISDN30 being in place?

 

[Chris Routledge]

It's always difficult to anticipate but there are options (depending on you location, and contract length) that will guarantee the install costs.

I may be able to help you with this if you let me know the address (PM if you like).

Plus depending on the contract length I could provide you with free installation anyway.

 

[smo]

Why would you go to leased line if you have FTTP??

You would be much better off with a FTTP product or even something like EFM both of which are massively cheaper than a leased line.

 

[singhabhishek251]

I too feel the same that you need not to go with leased line necessarily for your business right now.

 

[stewea]

Sorry, where did I say we had FTTP?

 

[lynxus]

Why would you go to leased line if you have FTTP??

You would be much better off with a FTTP product or even something like EFM both of which are massively cheaper than a leased line.

You tend to get a lot more from leased lines..

- Business class "service" and SLA's.. Ie: a 4Hour fix time on any fault.
- Symmetric speeds, 100meg up, 100meg down.
- No download / bandwidth limits.
- Zero contention 1:1 ratio
- QoS ( BT can cause problems with QoS where they strip tags off the network even though you you may get the FTTP from someone else.

 

[british steve]

Depending on which part of the country you are based, it may be possible to get a grant to cover the Leased Line install costs - the main thing is to get as many quotes as you can as prices can differ by hundreds if not thousands of pounds. The other thing is try and talk to tier one carriers (the fibre network owners) as they can (but not always) provide quotes that are far cheaper than though resellers.

Depending on what you are using it for - you could consider using a couple of bonded FTTC connections or for more guaranteed bandwidth take a look at Ethernet over FTTC which could save you a small fortune. If your using ISDN 30 for calls only take a look at moving to SIP trunks as this could also save money - if you go down this router make sure you have at least two broadband connections ideally one BT based on the other from Virgin so if one goes down you still have a working service.

The Government have a list of providers for broadband installation cost grants https://www.connectionvouchers.co.uk/suppliers/