<p>Dial Before You Dig and engage a cable indentifier company.</p>
<p>A lot cheaper than the cost of rectification this Utility will now be required to pay.</p>
<p>www.1100.com.au</p>
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<pre><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;">Kind regards,
Bryan O'Reilly
Founder - Telco Independent Consulting
www.telcoindependent.com.au
0419 632 098
30+ years experience to provide YOUR business with independent advice.</span></pre>
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<p>On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:04:28 +1100, "paul+ausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au" <paul+ausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">It’s a fair point you raise, but it’s a 2 way street, contractors would be operating off diagrams which the carriers need to keep up to date, if something was incorrect and then they dug a cable up it’s not their fault, but I agree, there should be something to penalise cowboys.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black;">TPG have now had at least 3 major fiber cuts in the past 6 weeks. Some form of policy, law, legislation, (whatever we want to call it) needs to be introduced where if a civil contractor causes damage to a telecommunications carrier network, then the business/company responsible is suspended from performing civil works for 3 months, hit with big-time financial penalties, or where it occurs multiple times then they lose their rights to operate as a civil contractor. This might teach them to be a bit more careful.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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