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| Thread ID: 68663 | 2006-05-06 23:29:00 | Telecom & LLU - Why will it take so long? | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 452784 | 2006-05-07 05:13:00 | An issue I can see is the granting of access to third parties to the exchanges. Someone before mentioned Downers but do you want any 'Johnny come lately' fiddling around in your local exchange? There must be certain standards and protocols adhered to, so as to not interfere with the service levels of other subscribers. Imagine the bunfight if some 'Johnny come lately' inadvertently disconnects your telephone / internet. Who is the first company you will complain to? I suspect it will be Telecom, when it may have been nothing to do with them. I raised this question in a previous thread, but if Telecom no longer owns the local loop, then who is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the exchanges? As others have mentioned, there is a lot more to this than meets the eye and I would rather this was done properly (and if necessary slowly), than the Nike way (i.e. 'just do it'). Just my thoughts A |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 452785 | 2006-05-07 06:11:00 | Fibre... Anyone else been through the Desert Rd this weekend? Is it fibre that's being layed along the side of the road? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 452786 | 2006-05-07 06:33:00 | An issue I can see is the granting of access to third parties to the exchanges. Quite right. Access is strictly controlled (and rightly so) to only those approved and trained for the equipment. Same for electricity substaions, only those with the approval can gain access. Otherwise it would indeed be chaos. But I would be surprised if any ISP using the LLU would want to DIY anyway, given the horrendous liabilities, most probably the existing contractors would be used. It's not like the days when they were all employed as staff of Telecom. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 452787 | 2006-05-07 07:04:00 | Is there the possibility Telecom could sabotage the equipment to some extent in order to make things more difficult for others trying to install equipment etc? | E|im (87) | ||
| 452788 | 2006-05-07 08:34:00 | Is there the possibility Telecom could sabotage the equipment to some extent in order to make things more difficult for others trying to install equipment etc?Yes, yes they could. I'd laugh long and hard... | Growly (6) | ||
| 452789 | 2006-05-07 09:50:00 | Quite right. Access is strictly controlled (and rightly so) to only those approved and trained for the equipment. It's not like the days when they were all employed as staff of Telecom. Thats for sure. Any of you actually been in an exchnage lately? I've been in heaps when it was NZPost, busy, tidy, well maintained. Been in quite a few about 3 years ago - full of building rubble (deconstruction not reconstruction), filthy, badly maintained. Any old NZPost worker would have been taken out back and shot if the cabling had been in such a spaghetti mess as it is now. Half the terminals are no longer labelled or incorrectly labelled. And up those ladders if you fell off and broke your neck no-one would find out for a loonnggg time. Downer staff work alone. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 452790 | 2006-05-07 11:26:00 | Anyone else been through the Desert Rd this weekend? Is it fibre that's being layed along the side of the road?Yup, I drove to AKL and back this week. It's fibre being laid by FX Networks - they plan to have a Fibre link Auckland --> Dunedin within 12 months (if I remember what they said right). They should have Auckland --> Wellington finished late in the third quarter of this year. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 452791 | 2006-05-07 12:10:00 | Any of you actually been in an exchnage lately? I've been in heaps when it was NZPost, busy, tidy, well maintained. I've been in a couple and like you said, back in the PO days they were well maintained / very organised. It would be a shame if they are as you have described. Hopefully that is not indicative of all exchanges and the work practices of the contractors. However, we shouldn't be that surprised - in the interest of cost cutting and outsourcing, much like shopping at the Warehouse, you get what you pay for. And like the building of the Space Shuttle, the maintenance contract for our telecommunications network is awarded to the cheapest bidder. Its' no wonder work practices go out the window and it's surprising there aren't more outages. |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 452792 | 2006-05-07 20:05:00 | Hello Folks - I'm the guy that started this thread, and want to thank everyone for all the info. Superb. Nothing like getting informed to make a budding tech-geek feel good. :nerd: :rolleyes: A week ago LLU meant nothing to me, just three letters. Thanks all. Re: FX Networks. Is this something all ISPs can use? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 452793 | 2006-05-07 21:38:00 | I've been in a couple and like you said, back in the PO days they were well maintained / very organised. It would be a shame if they are as you have described. Hopefully that is not indicative of all exchanges and the work practices of the contractors. Well I went into quite a few and they were all like that. Theres some people who are employed just to enable broadband and then there are apprentices, the apprentices do this also but its considered the equivalent of sweeping the floor while they train to do more technical things. |
pctek (84) | ||
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