[LINK] NBN Rollout in Tasmania: Next Phase

[Gordon Keith]

On Thu, 5 May 2011 01:22:07 PM Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> My understanding of these pilot sites is that they are being
> used to learn how to do the NBN. Tassie was underground,
> Townsville Aerial, Wollongong underground, Geraldton
> underground(?) and apparently Armidale (Aerial).
> 

Kingston Beach the existing power lines are aerial (but slowly being migrated 
underground), the existing telstra is underground down the street with lines 
running up poles then aerial to houses (at least in some cases, including 
ours).

NBN has asked for planning approval and home owner permission to run aerial 
fibre.

In our case we are on the side of 1:5 hill. there is a 3 m rock cliff 
(cutting) below our property down to the road where the telstra cable runs. 
The phone line comes up from undergound up a telstra pole across the road to 
the power pole at the top of the cliff and from the power pole to our house. 
I'm haven't checked but I suspect telstra cables in the area are undergound to 
houses built on a soil substrate rather than rock.

If you look at the streetview photos along Beach Rd, e.g. at -42.977079 
147.314949, you can see telstra poles along the north side of the road feeding 
cables to power poles on the south side of the road and then to houses.

Aurora (the local energy distributor who was got the NBN contract) has been 
laying empty 100? mm conduit for power and fibre next to Channel Highway, 
about 200m from the Kingston Beach NBN area boundary, where the road is 
shortly to be redone. How much of that is related to the NBN I have no idea.

How much NBN will be underground and how much aerial for Kingston Beach I have 
no idea.

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith

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