Re: Fibre

From	keithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Fibre
Date	2016-12-25 22:00 +1000
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On 12/24/2016 1:33 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>
>
> "Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:oqbr5cdbkpe2gnhvcd5srdas74r1d5cjtc@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 03:58:54 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:khvp5cpmp2v0mv50ln65322qovspm6bv1j@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:32:24 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:dflp5ch316bdgl22r51r503bcs24lbc0m1@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:16:17 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>>>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It does appear to be available today at my place.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was originally planning to stay with dodo until my contract
>>>>>>>> ran out,
>>>>>>>> 8 months @ $24/month break fee. Not attractive in the long term,
>>>>>>>> myrepublic.net is much better value for 100/40 unlimited, $60, dodo
>>>>>>>> wants $100 for that. Dodo will allow you to change to the NBN with
>>>>>>>> no contract penalty, but that involves a whole new 2 year contract.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dodo's retention people could only offer me $95/month but were
>>>>>>>> happy to halve the break fee to just $99.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I signed up with myreplublic.net, but that froze on the final
>>>>>>>> screen.
>>>>>>>> Rang them, but have now been on hold for 25 mins.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They did eventually answer the phone, had no record
>>>>>>> of the online signup so I signed up on the phone.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I only found FttN was available by checking online
>>>>>
>>>>> Mate of mine found a big Telstra van down the main street today
>>>>> and asked them when it would be available. He said today in half
>>>>> the town and a couple more weeks in the other half.
>>>>>
>>>>>> About a month later letters started arriving from ISP's of offers.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've been having those for months now, mostly from iprimus and
>>>>> someone else I can't remember. None from dodo or telstra tho even
>>>>> tho I have used both in the past and currently use dodo.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Also had problems for Telstra to give me correct bill always over
>>>>>> charged by around $10. Took them months to give me a TV modem
>>>>>> which I use for programs I miss not paying for any Netflix etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Havent used them for more than a decade now. I did use them
>>>>> when adsl first showed up, basically in case there were problems.
>>>
>>>> Well I hated Telecom to ring across the road was a toll cal (046) to
>>>> (02)
>>>
>>> That's not true. When that was across the road, it was still a local
>>> call.
>
>> Didn't aply to me in Campbelltown?
>
> Yes it did.
>
>>>> when we were allowed to use Optus I changed.
>
>>> I do use them for mobile, or more
>>> strictly amaysim who resells them.
>
>> Now with NBN freecalls becoming a norm,
>
> That is not correct. You pay extra per month for that.
>
>> something must change even better?
>
> What ?
>
>>>> Problem here is like all bureaucracies they can't or won't
>>>> fire dickheads instead they sent them to Sydney's furtherest
>>>> outpost. A legacy of this was bodged copperwire instalation.
>
>>> The NBN is being done by contractors.
>
>> Who is doing Turnbulls FttN copper to home?
>
> Dunno, ours used largely unmarked Avis rental vans.
>
> The bigger trucks used to dig the holes that the nodes
> are above, in the green metal boxes, were also unmarked,
> presumably also rented.

The original ones around our way were identifiable as Thiess Brothers. 
There was another mob that had ID on their vans they were called 
Visionstream, I think that they were the ones doing the fibre 
termination which is the most skilled part of the job.

http://www.visionstream.com.au/projects/nbn/

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