[LINK] Telstra sell-out

[Howard Lowndes]

rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Quoting Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>:
> 
>> Look I live in inner Sydney (lines have probably been in for a very long
>> time). Not sure - nor do I care whether it will support ADSL (they 
>> didn't when I checked a while back when they were pushing cable) - I 
>> am well served with competitive
>> wireless services. They do come and fiddle with the junction boxes and
>> subsequently my line was out for hours on several occassions.
> 
> 
> Well, the DSL works fine and dandy in Leichhardt ... I'm about 100 metres
> outside the BigAir footprint, already had a connection before Unwired 
> arrived
> so didn't bother...

The problem is that if a district is provisioned with cable then the 
exchange usually doesn't get DSL enabled.  I tried to provide a DSL 
service to a client in Melbourne, but because the street had both Foxtel 
and Optus cable, the exchange had no DSL provision, so we had to do 
broadband over cable.

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