:On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:04:50 +0800, Ross Herbert <
[email protected]>
wrote:
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:>
:>:On 5/09/2010 5:43 PM, terryc wrote:
:>:> On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:07:09 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote:
:>:>
:>:>> Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
:>:>>
https://www.directoryselect.com.au/ds/
:>:>>
:>:>> I was asking about this a couple of days ago, as I haven't looked in a
:>:>> phone directory for many years. So why not stop phone books being
:>:>> delivered?
:>:>
:>:> Well, the power goes off due to a house fault and you need to call an
:>:> electrician, what do you do?
:>:
:>:I figure you do the same as when your hard drive crashes and you have no
:>backup. You panic! Then you ask this group how
:>:you can get your data from a dead drive.
:>:
:>:I have always kept a standard 50VDC operated phone plugged in. "I MEAN
ALWAYS".
:>You don't need one plugged in, just
:>:handy, but mine is. That way, when I need to count to a 100+ for some silly
:>reason, and don't need a phone ring
:>:disruption, I drop it off the hook. Saves the batteries on the wireless
phones
:>also.
:>
:>Ah, but when you get on the NBN you won't have that reliable plain old
telephone
:>service anymore when mains power fails - unless you buy your own UPS back-up
:>battery... Just pray that it is not an emergency 000 call you want to make.
:
:What, NBN == no existing copper service? That'll be a forced changeover
nly 'cos Telstra private let the network rot for years.
Indeed. That's the situation currently envisaged.
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/policy_statements
quote;
Delivery of Universal Service Obligations within NBN Fibre Coverage Areas
Telstra will have a regulated obligation to continue to operate and maintain its
existing copper lines while the fibre network is rolled out, until the copper
exchange associated with that fibre area is decommissioned.
For these purposes, the responsibility to deliver services under the USO will
transfer from Telstra to USO Co from the date that premises in an NBN fibre
coverage area are no longer actively connected to the copper exchange.
USO Co will meet the agreed cost of migrating voice-only customers to a fibre
service after the Telstra copper exchange is decommissioned. The protocols for
determining when individual copper exchanges within the NBN fibre coverage areas
are to be decommissioned will be agreed between the Government, NBN Co and
Telstra. (Telstra will be separately required to provide the ACCC with a
migration plan that sets out the mechanisms and time frames for migrating
customers from its copper network to the NBN).
unquote.
As you will be aware, The federal government will pay Telstra $B11 to acquire
its existing copper based customer infrastructure. This means that existing
copper based services will eventually be discontinued and dedicated telephone
exchanges will be decommissioned as stated above.
:
:>:And the Sparkies fridge magnet is on the fridge where it belongs.
:
:I got some big batteries, want my place to light up bright when the power
:goes off, make everyone else in the street feel mad, must be their place
:
:Haven't found a round tuit for years, we don't get that many power fails.
:
You may be fortunate to have underground power where reliability is high but
most consumers still have wooden power pole distribution and these poles are
notorious for not being properly maintained and falling over during a storm or
burning down during a bushfire.
Murphy says that when you most need to use the phone the mains power will be off
for 5 hours and your UPS battery will be flat.
