<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Dec 19, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Christopher Hawker <<a href="mailto:me@chrishawker.com.au" class="">me@chrishawker.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>The integrity of <i class="">your</i> network is <i class="">your</i> problem and responsibility, controlled by <i class="">your</i> business decisions and <i class="">your</i> risk appetite, not civil contractors’.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you’re having trouble due to a fiber cut: Be better.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">With diversity, carriers really should be taking the initiative and advertising their diversity. Those who have it in place (and show it through a public network map or the like) should advertise/promote it. Those who dont will quickly lose business and be forced to up their game.</div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">It’s been alleged that TPG haven’t supplied diversity that has been paid for. Continuing to use them is a business decision guided by a risk assessment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carriers can’t solve that problem for you. They’re just bit-pipes with MTBFs. If you aren’t mitigating their risks, you’re a bit-pipe with an MTBF too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>