[AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"

[Jake Anderson]

I think its fair to say that since the FTTP roll was announced and 
telstra dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century that the CAN 
has been treated with a "well it only needs to last 10 years" mentality.
Which is understandable, theres no real point replacing a trunk line 
today if its going to get replaced by fibre tomorrow.
However I think the big change happened around when it was privatised 
and particularly under ziggy.
It seemed to go from a place where (as a whole) doing the job well was 
valued over doing lots of jobs.
It went from well we are going to have to do this right at some point, 
might as well do it now to must maximise profits for the next quarter, 
"do more with less".

Now I know there were hotshots, slackers and dodgy brothers back then 
too but I don't think its unfair to say the bloke we now have running 
the NBN also oversaw the biggest reduction in maintenance work and 
customer satisfaction in the Telstra CAN.

In theory telstra are still required to maintain services in areas not 
served by NBN, perhaps a few $M thrown their way to pay for "repairs not 
economic with upcoming obsolescence" may have been an idea. How on earth 
you manage that is left as an exercise for the student lol.

On 22/11/13 14:14, Paul Wallace wrote:
>
> When the NBN was first announced (or the deal completed at least) 
> Telstra immediately stopped investing in the copper CAN.
>
> .. as would anyone else probably knowing that the entire copper 
> network was going to be discontinued.
>
> Many of the complaints we've heard today might have been averted where 
> the previous government added a 'maintenance' facet to the agreement 
> with Telstra.
>
> Given the not inconsiderable delay forecast by the NBNco to complete 
> the rollout (I think 8-9 years was forecast), it seems negligent for 
> the previous Gov to have exposed some Australian consumers to the 
> degradation.
>
> Also, strangely, I haven't heard the Unions complain that the effect 
> of killing off the copper CAN was to provide Telstra with the perfect 
> excuse to make a range of copper focused jobs redundant.
>
> Nothings perfect but some things are just plain dumb.
>
> -P
>
> *From:*AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Robert Hudson
> *Sent:* Friday, 22 November 2013 12:38 PM
> *To:* Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"
>
> I suspect those shonkey work practices have contributed to the 
> accelerated decline of the copper network.
>
> That said, I also suspect that many of the requirements to actually do 
> work on the copper in the first place came as a result of the general 
> longetivity of copper networks. :)
>
> On 22 November 2013 13:32, Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney) 
> <Eric.Pinkerton at baesystemsdetica.com 
> <mailto:Eric.Pinkerton at baesystemsdetica.com>> wrote:
>
> Am I the only person who thinks those photos provided by the CEPU of 
> the aging copper network speak more to shonky work practices than the 
> general longevity of copper networks?
>
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