[AusNOG] Mixing tech stuff

[Gavin Rogers]

On 19/06/2014 8:44 AM, Andrew Ehrhardt wrote:
> The idea of running fibre when conducting other works was tried by Western Power for a while. I believe it was part of the move to underground power distribution in older areas.
>

Great idea. Bad timing. Just as they were starting the project the whole 
dot com bubble burst and Western Power lost interest. (As a state 
government owned monopoly they may not have been keen/may not have been 
able to service in the ISP space, but that's my idle speculation)

Now why don't major construction, road, railway, power and utilities 
earthworks don't have a mandatory "must provide NBN Co access while you 
have the everything dug up" provision? Surely it would save a lot of 
money and duplication of effort in the build?


Gavin.