[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Fri Apr 12 09:34:08 AEST 2013


At 9:24 +1000 12/4/13, Tom Worthington wrote:
>The cabinets and overhead cables are vulnerable to bushfire, but I
>noticed no interruption to service during the Canberra 2003 fires:
>http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/enet.html

It wiped out significant parts of Chapman's infrastructure, and hence 
service, because segments of the lines ran on the ridge side of the 
suburb, which is where the fire raged.

(Chapman had been connected to Transact only weeks earlier).

Bernard may or may not have noticed this particular loss though ...

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