[LINK] Battery back-up mandatory for NBN?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:38 AM 25/10/2010, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

>The answer is, "both". Everyone's forgetting that Tasmania is a pilot.
>The documentation for the pilot sites should be read in that context: we
>do not know if all of the procedures for NBN Tasmania will be adopted
>nationally. That's the reason for a pilot - the outcomes of the pilot
>provide input to the rest of the rollout.

I think there may be a bit of 'blind man and the elephant' going on 
here. There are a few issues that need to be unpacked: system 
batteries and local premises. I don't know the engineering design to 
get a picture of either.

What we do know is current copper services provide power the end 
equipment on the analog system so if your street power goes off, you 
still have a phone. But new end user equipment would not??

If a mobile phone battery goes dead, it needs a replacement, but if 
the tower to which it is connecting dies, there is still no service.




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