[LINK] From my friend re NBN change

[Paul Brooks]

On 12/12/2014 4:10 PM, Jim Birch wrote:
> Paul Brooks wrote:
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>     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.
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> 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.)
I believe its primarily a technical reason - I understand its for the telephone
service, that Telstra only allow the certified SIP client they have tested and are
familiar with in their CPE to connect to their SIP servers to provide the telephone
service using VoIP - they don't blindly trust random SIP client implementations from
other CPE.
Best to ask Telstra though.