[AusNOG] ABC 4Corners - What's Wrong with the NBN?

[Benjamin Ricardo]

My 2c
Real world problems for us have been mostly to do with Voice services.
I don’t know why but porting numbers is worse than pulling teeth and takes about 400x as long, Cat-A, Cat-C doesn’t matter, it sucks eggs.

When I heard they were converting to FTTN from FTTP I initially thought beaut, now all our oldies that don’t have the internet but do have a PSTN service can just happily continue without being forced into change (very stressful for them you can appreciate), all our business clients that are happy with their 30year old PBX but need a decent speed internet service for offsite backup/ multisite can get just that… but then… VOIP/virtual PBX over FTTN… yuck.
We’ve had very little trouble with deploying internet services and have been getting good results. FTTP,FTTN both been ok with the exception of a couple for the war stories book.

Funny story. We have client who’s a bikie (picture the hulk with a beard) he was told by an NBN installer that even though we requested to put in a new line and not touch existing services the NBN couldn’t do that and it had to disconnect one of his existing phonelines… “Get out” was the response. (and he did)

My question is, if this NBN is all about super-fast internet why force people to change their phone service?



From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim Raphael
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Subject: [AusNOG] ABC 4Corners - What's Wrong with the NBN?

For those that didn’t watch 4Corners last night, this is very much worth watching. It really shows how NZ’s UFB compares to NBN.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC1704H037S00

- Tim
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