NBN sub contractors

[lloydslights]

They have just turned up 10 days earlier than scheduled.  

The 20 year olds look as though they've slept in their van, after partaking of a substance of some sort for the last few days. No ID or card to identify themselves or their company.

They had steel capped boots on with their board shorts and hoodies.

Their plan was to dig diagonally across the yard (including about 4 metres of concrete driveway).  

I asked who was to pay for all this work on my property.   "Just the government" was the response to my apparently stupid question.

They have now gone to speak to their "big supervisor" about my suggestion of pulling the cable through an existing conduit.  

Okay, has anyone else experienced similar workmen and ideas that are charged to the Government?

DEB

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Would you like to take over from LL and show everyone the "vast superiority" of the NBN as sold to the voters to win an election?

Be my guest trot out your arguments.:)

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 why would anyone bother given past performances ? my favorite was where you 'demonstrated' that copper is superior to fibre  

i doubt anyone else is making the arguments you made at that time , comic relief is all you provided. when presented with detail you ignore it and start prodicing the most dubious and ludicrous arguments i can recall  seeing on the topic. laughable.

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Not once was he able to provide any context or evidence to support the unhinged contempt for the Labor policy, which was supported by independents and greens also. There were just the constant demands heaped on others to answer sillier and sillier questions and an absolute refusal to answer any questions in return.

[poddster]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Would you like to take over from LL and show everyone the "vast superiority" of the NBN as sold to the voters to win an election?

Be my guest trot out your arguments.:)

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 why would anyone bother given past performances ? my favorite was where you 'demonstrated' that copper is superior to fibre  

i doubt anyone else is making the arguments you made at that time , comic relief is all you provided. when presented with detail you ignore it and start prodicing the most dubious and ludicrous arguments i can recall  seeing on the topic. laughable.

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LL your memory is not too good.

What I stated was the the wave propagation in copper is equal to optic fibre and it is.

Both copper and optic fibre have wave prpagation of around 0.6X speed of light in a vacume

[poddster]

Another of fundamental statements i make and made it that "the maximum speed of ant data transmission is only as fast as the slowest link" any one care to dispute that?

[just_me_karen]

Importantly, it was (is) also supported by the majority of Australians.

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@just_me_karen wrote:
Importantly, it was (is) also supported by the majority of Australians.

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Yes, it was and is supported by the majority, including the fools who thought they knew better and thought they could get little Mal and Tone to change their minds or believed they would wait for the reports before changing the roll out.

[poddster]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
Importantly, it was (is) also supported by the majority of Australians.

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In your opinion, if something is supported by the majority does it make it fact?

[just_me_karen]

Yes it does. It's also a mandate. Ask tony.
people voted for lies.

Silly, silly people.

[patchoo78]

I have had some problem with the NBN myself, between being lied to by Telstra and having someone come into my house without me even ordering the NBN it has been a nightmare.. 

A month or so ago I got a call from Telstra saying that there would be someone coming around to prepare me for the NBN, I didn't have a choice about anything as it had to be done due to the NBN switch over in 3 months (It's actually a year) so I was basically strong armed into making the appointment. He said they would require two vists, one outside where they wouldn't have to do anything to the inside of the house, and one visit inside the house to switch over the phone lines.. The first visit actually did need access to my house to screw the NBN box in.

The next apointment was for the phone line switch over, before starting he informed me that if he continued  then I would lose my internet connection and wouldn't be able to use the phone... 

All this had been done on the assumption that I had made a phonecall asking for the NBN to be put on when I made no such phone call 

There have also been complaints about Telstra re-sellers calling people and coercing them into connecting with Telstra as they're made to feel they have no choice when in reality, the copper lines aren't being switched off until July next year

[poddster]

Patch what service did you have prior to being coerced into the NBN connection?

Also what is your average monthly usage speed and data wise?

[patchoo78]

We still don't have the NBN.. We have the box in the house due to being forced into it but haven't switched over to the NBN as yet