[LINK] From my friend re NBN change

[Jim Birch]

Paul Brooks wrote:


> 3. Telstra appear to be forcing all NBN connections to buy and connect a
> Telstra-provided home gateway/router to the NBN connection to provide the
> telephone
> service as VoIP using the Telstra gateway, not using the in-built VoIP
> capability of
> the NBN box.
>

Is there a technical or commercial reason for this?  It's a fairly onerous
constraint to go to a telstra router if you want to do anything non
standard with your connection (as I would.)

Jim