Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Close enough to know some costing

We are close enough now to know what a high speed connection will cost but not yet how fast that connection might be.  Call Flow Solutions is looking to install a cabinet in Temple that will provide a potential for 30mbps download speeds.  This would be truly super fast but might not be available to everyone depending on where the copper runs from the exchange attached cabinet where the FTTC has been installed.

Here is the text of an email from Call Flow Solutions that discusses costs:

In regards to your questions I can offer little information due to not knowing the exact location of the cabinet... yet!

We hope to be to able to provide up to 30Mbps download and up to 2Mbps upload (again we cannot specify what addresses will get what speed due to not knowing the location of the cabinet)

We will be offering 2 packages for residential

Call Flow 40
·         Connection fee £78
·         BB rental PCM £27
·         40GB Usage PCM
·         Line only rental £16.99 (two calling packages available that can be added on e.g. unlimited weekend and evening and unlimited anytime)

Total cost of package per calendar month: £43.99 inc VAT

Call Flow XXL
·         Connection fee £78
·         BB rental PCM £32.40
·         200GB Usage PCM (20p per GB over)
·         Line only rental £16.99 (two calling packages available that can be added on)

Total cost of package per calendar month: £49.39 inc VAT

There will also be two standard business packages available

Call Flow 40
·         Up to 30/5
·         £99 + VAT connection fee
·         Monthly BB rental: £36.50 + VAT
·         40GB usage limit
·         Includes single fixed IP

Call Flow XXL
·         Up to 30/5
·         £99 + VAT connection fee
·         £41 + VAT
·         200 GB usage limit (17p + VAT per GB thereafter)
·         Includes single fixed IP

We can also offer bespoke business packages through our business development manager Taylor.

From their website it looks like they have two different price plans with Temple(/Berkshire) and Hampshire in the upper and East Sussex and Kent in the lower.  I have asked if this is because of a more expensive technology that we require or is it a factor of time and we can hope to see cost reductions in the future?  I ask the latter because I thought that I remembered checking their prices when they first got the contract and seeing Kent be higher but I could be mistaken.

ConnectionMonthly
40gb200gb40gb200gb
East Sussex30.00Free21.0025.00
Hampshire78.0078.0027.0032.40
Kent30.00Free21.0025.00
Temple78.0078.0027.00
32.40