[LINK] Months without phone, mobile or internet because of NBN Co delays

David Boxall linkdb at boxall.name
Tue Mar 7 09:18:18 AEDT 2017


On 6/03/2017 12:32 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Good grief. This is a public safety issue now. Shame on Telstra. I tweeted to Anthony Byrne that Telstra used a mobile network setup during the fire outages. Why not for these people? They STILL have a USO in place.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/months-without-phone-mobile-or-internet-because-of-nbn-co-delays-20170303-gupvrz.html
> ...
To anyone outside an urban area, this sort of thing is far too familiar. 
I hate to think how many lives have been lost, apart from other costs.

> Telstra told The Age on Friday residents have to make it clear if they have no access to fixed voice service to trigger the USO.
>
> "The Belmond Estate is in the NBN rollout map," the Telstra spokesman said.

The NBN has given Telstra another excuse to evade responsibility. A very 
good argument for Australia reverting to a single, publicly owned and 
operated, telecommunications infrastructure provider. Sadly, our 
government is complicit.

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