[LINK] Telstra ultimatum on fibre

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On a slightly different twist to this theme, I had a DSL connection with 
> Peopletelecom for about 4 years.  I lost it when PT stuffed up a 
> transfer from one of my land lines to the other and they failed to 
> ensure that the second line was enabled before they disabled the first. 
> They told me that it could be months, even up to a year, before ports 
> would become available in the exchange.
> 
> I went to the local Telstra office and signed up for a BP account. 
> Nothing happened for 2 weeks so I checked with BP and they said that 
> another DSL provider had an outstanding provisioning order on my phone 
> number.  I rang PT and told them to cancel the provisioning order.  They 
> said that if they couldn't provision a service because there were no 
> available ports then no other provider was able to provision the 
> service.   Within 5 days the service was activated, albeit with a faulty 
> mux port in the exchange which the Telstra tech fixed.
> 
> So yes, Telstra are holding out on access availability...
> 

Not sure what they are upto, but there have been Telstra technicians
beavering away in Annandale (for those not familiar with Sydney this is
about 5 km from CBD - residential development circa 1870) Streets in
recent weeks. Note, we have TVcable burried in our verges, despite my
protests to Telstra and Council, and ADSL was not available a few years
back. I-Burst is very reliable here.

> 
> Saliya Wimalaratne wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:06:12PM +1000, Chris Maltby wrote:
>>
>>> Those words were my addition - the report I heard was that there is room
>>> within the proposed Telstra nodes for additional mux cards. But these 
>>> things
>>> would be made/supplied in sufficient quantity to allow minor 
>>> specification
>>> changes for little or no cost - much less than the cost of a 
>>> duplicate FTTN
>>> network.
>>
>>
>> Pfft.
>>
>> Telstra 'make space' for someone else? That'd be silly.
>> Ever had a look inside of an existing Telstra exchange?
>> There's kit in some of the ones I've seen from the 70's. Not powered 
>> up. But taking up rack space. We are talking cathedral ceilings.
>> Why is it still there?
>> So that when competitor <x> says "I have a carrier licence, I need
>> to put my (superlative deleted) equipment in" Telstra can say "I'm sorry,
>> there isn't the physical space for that".
>> When does it get removed?
>> When it's no longer needed. Interestingly, newer Telstra equipment seems
>> to need space at roughly the same time. It's a shame that the extra space
>> doesn't seem to co-incide with other carriers' requirements; but then 
>> Telstra has always been pretty good at running the numbers.
>> I'd be interested to see a record of carrier space applications vs. 
>> rejections
>> and have that correlated against Telstra 'application' (they don't)
>> vs 'ditch this old gear that's disabled'.
>> Yes, transmission over fibre is getting more efficient. Will this make 
>> a difference to the populace or to !Telstra? No. Not with the 
>> installed base
>> that they have. Something significant is required regulatory-wise...
>> and the ACCC frankly doesn't have the balls anymore.
>> I wonder if filtering software will censor my post ? :)
>> Regards,
>>
>> Saliya
>>
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