[LINK] DD & NBN

[Andy Farkas]

On 24/03/2016 09:16, David Lochrin wrote:
> On 2016-03-22 08:16 Andy Farkas wrote:
>
>> There are many political points to score by Labor from what Turnbull/Abbott have done to the NBN/MTM.
> Most of the problems arising from the MTM strategy are technical & strategic which isn't easy to get across to an electorate, particularly when most current NBN users are probably very happy vegemites on FTTP services.

Here is a fairly non-technical rundown of the current MTM problems:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nbn-open-letter-marketing-advertising-media-industry-denise-shrivell

> It will become a hot potato when an entire small town loses all FTTN voice & data services because the street cabinets have been flooded and services take weeks to restore.
>

Which will almost certainly happen in Bundaberg. There a nodes
built where even a small 1m flood will wipe them out.

-andyf