BT Access Network Facilities

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BT Access Network Facilities Costs for Major
Items
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Agenda

• Co-location
• Set-up
• Ongoing cost
• Tie Cables
• Metallic Path Facilities
• Conclusion

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Co-location Room Build

• Assessed on case ny case basis
• Itemised quotes based on contractors estimate
• Ranges for Typical items
• Ventilation/Cooling 5k - 20k
• Minor Equipment 8k - 20k
• Planning 2k - 5k
• Access Control 5k - 10k
• Doors 2k - 5k
• Flooring and building 200 - 500 per square
  metre.
• Cable Runway 10k - 25k
• Possible Range for 10 m? 30k - 100k

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Co-location Ongoing costs (1)

• Annual Maintenance Costs
• Building by building basis, may be regional.
• General maintenance of building fabric
• Surcharge on Internal Tie Cable
• Maintenance of dedicated space
• Estimated Range 10- 20 per sq m pa.

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Co-location Ongoing costs (2)

• Licence Fee
• Space utilisation contribution to building
  rates
• Building by building basis, may be regional
• Light Industrial or Alternative use
• Typical Estimated ranges per m? per annum
• London and the South East 50 to 200
• Wales and the Midlands 20 to 200
• North England and Scotland 20 to 150
• Northern Ireland 20 to 50

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Co-location Ongoing Costs (3)

• Basic Power Consumption
• metered
• per KWh consumed
• Regional
• Will not exceed local power company tariffs
• Stand-by Power will be extra
• based on designed load

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Tie Cables

• Internal Tie Cable (per 100 pairs)
• Average costs on average length
• Connection used to recover of systems set-up
  costs
• Estimated Approximate costs
• Set-up 4000 Ongoing 200 pa.
• External Tie Cable
• Labour materials cost dependent on cable
  distance
• For 1000 pair, estimated cost per 100m
• Set-up 9,000 Ongoing 800 pa

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Metallic Path Facility

• Determined by Oftel
• LRIC Mark-up
• Ongoing Costs
• Set-up costs for Transfer/Take-over
• Line Test
• Cost per fault report occasion
• Maintenance Adjustment?

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Metallic Path Fcility (2)

• New Pair Set-up Costs
• Parity with BT Broadband policy
• Bottom-up costs
• 4 standard costs
• From Stock Minor network intervention Major
  network intervention Small network build.

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Conclusion

• Indicative costs only
• Not all cost items covered - eg. BT Egress, Full
  Survey cost, Site visits.
• Major Cost elements only
• Oftel paper Expected Mid-May