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

[Ross Wheeler]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:

> If your back-yard was the only access route between a carrier and their 
> customer, then yes, they could trench through your property,

There are some conditions, but basically that's as I understand it too.


> same as an electricity company can run lines across your farm to serve 
> your neighbour.

This used to be the case, I don't believe it still is. When we built our 
home/office/bunker a little over 10 years ago, the power had been 
surveyed, quoted and so on, but the previous land owner ended up bailing 
on the project and it didn't go ahead. When we tried to pick it up and 
continue, the rules had changed and the landowner over whos land it was 
going actually has a "right of veto". The power company no longer had 
statutory rights to simply barge in and do it. (As a result, we live 
completely off-grid, there simply being no viable way to get the power 
here without going through the neighbouring property, and the owner of it 
refusing to permit it). As far as I know, that's still the situation, at 
least in NSW)