[AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW CRM:000084250

Matt Perkins matt at spectrum.com.au
Fri Oct 30 13:24:09 EST 2015


Your spot on Nick. This is becoming daily explain for me now. It 
devalues our offerings quite a bit. Still I remember people saying while 
would i need more then 56k what's the use of ADSL

Matt.


  On 30/10/2015 1:18 PM, Nick Brown wrote:
>
> It’s not just limited to building managers, NBN is quickly becoming 
> synonymous with fibre to the average punter.
>
> My accountant was recently telling me how it was unfair that the 
> office next door to his had just received FTTP and how he was 
> preparing to complain to NBN, before I pointed out that it was our 
> network…
>
> Regards,
>
> *Nick Brown**| Carrier Relations***
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> *From:*AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Matt Perkins
> *Sent:* Friday, 30 October 2015 1:07 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW CRM:000084250
>
> Hay Skeeve,
>  Is there a chance your building manager Said NBN but means TPG.  Our 
> building manager was saying NBN to me when FirstPath (Hi Stephen) was 
> installing and then he said NBN to me again when TPG started 
> installing.  I have found that Building managers seem to use the word 
> NBN for anything that is fast broadband.  Doesn't help that people 
> like TPG's documentation says "NBN Style super fast broadband on it" . 
> TPG tries to use a bit of smoke and mirrors to so there will be less 
> push back from building managers and owners corps that are clueless. 
> (who can blame them)
>
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
>
> On 30/10/2015 12:57 PM, Stephen Carter (FirstPath) wrote:
>
>     Happy Friday all,
>
>     I would agree, we see competitors saying that they are connecting
>     soon but in fact they have no fibre in the street & or short term
>     plans to do so. This practice really just results in OC’s becoming
>     confused & less competition etc. FirstPath generally disregard
>     these statements by other carriers and build regardless to deliver
>     end user service.
>
>     As far as the “three addresses” issue is concerned this is common
>     and hard to overcome as different information sources use
>     different addresses: Owners, tenants, Land Titles, Google, Whereis
>     etc … some even have the same buildings in different suburbs and
>     postcodes. I have seen some with 8 or more addresses, if its any
>     comfort it’s equally frustrating for carriers…
>
>     Kind regards
>
>     *Stephen Carter*
>
>     FirstPath
>
>     *From:*AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf
>     Of *Jonathan Thorpe
>     *Sent:* Friday, 30 October 2015 12:42 PM
>     *To:* Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com
>     <mailto:skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>     <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW
>
>     Skeeve,
>
>     Aside from direct information from nbn™ which seems to be hard to
>     come by, http://www.mynbn.info/ collates most publicly available
>     information to provide some sense of what activity is happening where.
>
>     I’ve noticed a lot of existing developments around
>     Glebe/Ultimo/CBD  being classified as “High Value Builds”, likely
>     in response to TPG’s aggressive push to install FTTB wherever it can.
>
>     nbn’s product roadmap
>     (http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco/documents/Integrated-Product-Roadmap.pdf)
>     indicates that they don’t have HFC being part of an official
>     product release until Q2 2016, so you will almost certainly be
>     left with FTTN.
>
>     It’s starting to look like there’s a lot of overbuilding going on
>     to secure these “high value” buildings whereas there are areas
>     that are far down the 3 year plan that currently have nothing.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Jonathan
>
>     *From:*AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf
>     Of *Skeeve Stevens
>     *Sent:* Friday, 30 October 2015 12:29 PM
>     *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>     *Subject:* [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm confused.
>
>     I live in a complex in Glebe which big and takes an entire block
>     (over 100 units).  We have 3 addresses on 3 sides of the block.
>
>     The complex has Telstra Bigpond Cable and it has worked fine for
>     the 2 years we've been here.
>
>     I've heard from the building manager that NBN is about to be
>     installed... and should be ready in a couple of weeks.
>
>     *blink* ?
>
>     Firstly, the new rollout from NBN says Glebe area is 2018, but
>     also says it is HFC.
>
>     I assuming they aren't doing FTTH... the internal cabling costs on
>     that in this place would be insane.... so I assume it is HFC
>     upgrades of some kind?  I didn't think that NBNCo was actually
>     upgrading anything in the complexes?
>
>     Also, does anyone know if there is someone I can talk to at NBN
>     about their rollout addressing... as while 2 of our address sides
>     come up in the NBN lookup tool as coming soon, one of them
>     doesn't... but it is all the same infrastructure.
>
>     ...Skeeve
>
>
>
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         Office 1300 133 299        matt at spectrum.com.au
                                    Level 6, 350 George Street Sydney 2000
         Spectrum Networks is a member of the Communications Alliance & TIO
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