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I can only find some small excerpts from the April 19 Senate Estimates Committee hearing (why do Govs make it so hard to access public domain info), but from the small amount I've read on some blogs it does seem MT does not have the understanding required of a Mr Broadband
Mr Turnbull: To Mr McLaren! You would be aware that about 34 percent of the premises to be covered by the fixed line footprint of the NBN Co’s plan are multidwelling units!
Turns out only a very small amount of that 34% is what most people would call MDUs - the majority in there are town houses and villas.
Next to show his lack of understanding
Turnbull to Quigley
If you were to do a portion of the brownfields rollout with what is called fibre to the node – but we are talking about a vectored VDSL solution!
Mr Quigley: – No we have not. In fact, not only should we not do that, for the reasons that Mr Harris articulated before, but we just do not have enough information to do that, because it takes a fair number of assumptions.
There are some big questions in there about the copper remediation. For example, there is a big question of who is going to pay for the costs of the copper that would need to be remediated to remove bridge taps and fix joints if such an approach were taken. So there are half a dozen very meaty issues that would need to be resolved before we could analyse that in any detail!
MT has definitely not attempted to answer these questions.
To put some perspective on this issue, the company I work for has around 100K of Telstra ULLs (Telstra copper without a dial tone), along with a significant amount of Telstra Wholesale ADSL.
In any month the failure rate of this copper is 0.5% to 1% (admittedly failure can mean totally down to just unstable or errors slowing things down). The wide variation is usually due to local weather - ie when it rains the level of faults jumps significantly. I'm lucky I deal in the corporate faults as it's much easier to get a decent Telstra tech assigned. In the consumer space it seems faults can last for weeks before being resolved.
I'd estimate 15% of the corporate faults require multiple visits by a field tech.
So I do worry about how the copper will be tested and what criteria will be used to determine if you keep it or it gets replaced.
Mr Turnbull: To Mr McLaren! You would be aware that about 34 percent of the premises to be covered by the fixed line footprint of the NBN Co’s plan are multidwelling units!
Turns out only a very small amount of that 34% is what most people would call MDUs - the majority in there are town houses and villas.
Next to show his lack of understanding
Turnbull to Quigley
If you were to do a portion of the brownfields rollout with what is called fibre to the node – but we are talking about a vectored VDSL solution!
Mr Quigley: – No we have not. In fact, not only should we not do that, for the reasons that Mr Harris articulated before, but we just do not have enough information to do that, because it takes a fair number of assumptions.
There are some big questions in there about the copper remediation. For example, there is a big question of who is going to pay for the costs of the copper that would need to be remediated to remove bridge taps and fix joints if such an approach were taken. So there are half a dozen very meaty issues that would need to be resolved before we could analyse that in any detail!
MT has definitely not attempted to answer these questions.
To put some perspective on this issue, the company I work for has around 100K of Telstra ULLs (Telstra copper without a dial tone), along with a significant amount of Telstra Wholesale ADSL.
In any month the failure rate of this copper is 0.5% to 1% (admittedly failure can mean totally down to just unstable or errors slowing things down). The wide variation is usually due to local weather - ie when it rains the level of faults jumps significantly. I'm lucky I deal in the corporate faults as it's much easier to get a decent Telstra tech assigned. In the consumer space it seems faults can last for weeks before being resolved.
I'd estimate 15% of the corporate faults require multiple visits by a field tech.
So I do worry about how the copper will be tested and what criteria will be used to determine if you keep it or it gets replaced.