[AusNOG] Office Link Needed (Fibre or alike) Sydney

[Jonathan Brewer]

Questions & comments, if the audience pleases, to help me better understand
Australian law.

On 23 October 2015 at 06:31, Christopher Pollock <cpollock at twitch.tv> wrote:

>
> Now, to explain a little about how public datacentres often work,
> generally the colo provider would charge you an exorbinant amount to
> install cabling between racks or to run patch leads, in the thousands.
>

This is how exchanges are run in NZ. You don't get to cross connect by
yourself. But that's commerce, isn't it? The hotel owner makes the rules.
If they don't want you partying in the hallways, you don't do it, or you
get thrown out of the hotel. *Or is it different in Australia?*


> However, anyone with a carrier license & cabling license and the right
> tools could run up their own in 15 minutes. This happened many times.
> Thousands of times. I would not be underestimating it to say that there
> were at least 5,000 unregulated, unregistered cables in that datacentre
> floor.
>

This sounds like madness to me. It happens at Sky Tower Auckland, which is
just hideous - and the last place one would want to run a non-radio
production service. *How does a carrier license and cabling license allow
you to treat private property any way you want?* Does your carrier license
allow you to cross connect to another carrier in my back-yard? Can you just
string cables anywhere in Australia you want? These are serious questions.

>
> Me: WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP
> DC Tech: I’m removing the inactive and unauthorised patches. I have an
> order from management to do it.
> Me: ARE YOU A F**KING IDIOT? DO YOU REALISE THAT THESE ARE ACTIVE
> TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND THAT INTERFERING WITH OR DISCONNECTING THEM
> IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE UNDER THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997!?
>
>
What happens in the case an "Active Telecommunications Service" is run in a
way that impinges on property rights? Or is run in a way that compromises
the safety of a facility? Or a street? Is there some legal precedence? Has
anyone ever been prosecuted under this Telecommunications Act 1997 for
removing bad cabling?

Finally, I had the unique opportunity to help out at bdNOG in Dhaka earlier
this year. Hats off to Bangladesh, who in six years have gone from 0.5m
Internet users to 43m Internet users. But the cabling... it's like your
data centre. Local ISPs just do whatever they want. Unregulated,
unregistered cables everywhere. *And it looks like
this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsh3kt3muuj8q5f/2015-05-19%2008.40.29.jpg?dl=0
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsh3kt3muuj8q5f/2015-05-19%2008.40.29.jpg?dl=0>*

-JB
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