[LINK] Customers may be forced on to NBN to keep phones

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Tue Oct 12 17:51:41 AEDT 2010


  Dips me lid! Consider my statement revised, that once customers in a 
FSA are migrated to the NBN, Telstra will *then* decommission the copper.

RC

On 12/10/10 5:46 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
>    On 12/10/2010 4:34 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>>
>> Yes, there was. The aim, under the Telstra / NBN deal, is to
>> simultaneously decommission copper and commission fibre in any given
>> service area.
>>
>> Rollout timing is important to ISPs with DSLAMs, since they need to plan
>> the depreciation of their networks (remember that rollout is an
>> eight-year project). An ISP with DSLAMs will eventually switch them off.
>>
>> Telstra won't keep the copper network under the NBN plan, it will switch
>> it off and migrate its customers to the NBN wholesale network.
> Note that it is unlikely to be simultaneous - I expect an overlap period of many
> months, if not years, between when the NBN is deployed, and when all the services have
> been methodically migrated according to a project-plan across from the copper to the
> NBN so that the plug can be pulled on the active equipment driving the lines inside
> the exchange.
>
> see also Draft NBN End User Migration Reference Model (pdf, 266 KB)
> <http://www.commsalliance.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/23822/Draft_NBN_End_User_Migration_Reference_Model_Jun2010.pdf>
> for a reasonable treatment of the likely complexities of the migration process.
>
> Paul.
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