[AusNOG] NBNCo releases its response to industry consultation

[Alastair Johnson]

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> Grahame,
> Do you really think NBNCo is going to blind call people without doing a bit of awareness raising in each area as it rolls out?   eg.  letter box drops, maybe a bit of door knocking, local "community meetings", advertisements in the local papers?   

That's more or less how it works in Singapore.  The NBN rollout here is 
pretty high profile (even taxi drivers often talk to me about it), and 
OpenNet (the netco) promotes the fact they're coming to a neighborhood 
well in advance - letter drops, billboard type things, etc.

When they are doing the initial build, you get the drop cable to the 
door and X meters of lead-in cable to your selected location for 
internal ONTs free.  If you choose *not* to do it during their initial 
build, you will need to pay when it does get installed - typically this 
should be cheap but it can depend on the complexity of the penetration. 
  A pub nearby me has a small OFDF outside the door that was installed 
during the initial build, but there was no penetration of their building 
as they didn't take up the offer.

The ONT will not be installed because that's owned by Nucleus Connect 
(the opco).  That is installed when the first service is ordered by an RSP.

Obviously slightly different here since the NetCo and OpCo are separate 
companies.

aj