<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="yui_3_7_2_497_1373783484749_62" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="yui_3_7_2_497_1373783484749_63" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Hudson <hudrob@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 17 July 2013 1:56 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] "NBN Co to reserve data port for government"<br> </font> </div> <div
class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9799965687">On 17 July 2013 12:58, Matthew Moyle-Croft <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mmc@mmc.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:mmc@mmc.com.au">mmc@mmc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="yiv9799965687gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv9799965687gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;">I wonder how they're going to use it?<div><br></div><div>Let's say they wanted to use it for a "smart meter" - I'm fascinated how the process of cabling from whereever the NBN NTU is to the electricity meter.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Last I heard, the NBN has already been trying to sell access to one of the ports on their NTU to the energy utilities for something around $30 a month. I'm pretty damned sure that will never fly at that sort of price.</div>
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should have GIVEN the energy utility a port then they could have
mandated that they get an NTU in each and every house and we wouldn't
have this "premises passed" v's "premises connected" issue (or perhaps charged a trivial amount like $10 PA to the utility for each premises).</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Energy
Utility could put in place a small device attached to the NBN NTU that
uses Zigbee to talk to the smart meter (which is what I believe the
smart meters use at the moment ?). This way it doesn't matter where the
NTU is placed.</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>regards,</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Tony.</span></div>
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