Let this not happen to the NBN

by William Maher  |  Tuesday 20 March 2012
Let this not happen to the NBN

A report credits "vandals" with a cutting a Telstra fibre connection connecting Maitland and the Hunter Valley.

[Update: iTnews has updated their story with information that repairs were made on the day, and fibre services restored.]

Cutting cables is not something we'd normally associate with "vandals", but apparently that's what's happened in the Hunter Valley in NSW.

According to this story posted today by our friends at iTnews, a Telstra fibre between Maitland and the Hunter Valley was deliberately cut sometime in the early hours of this morning. The result was 19000 local phone services, 8000 ADSL services having "connection issues or intermittent timeouts".

We've heard of electricity contractors accidentally doing this sort of thing before - back in 2009 contractors cut Telstra fibre in Sydney's business district. But you've got to wonder why someone would go and deliberately do it.

NBN lines will be installed via overhead lines and underground ditches. In some new housing developments it will be the only lines in the ground. 

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Comments: 7
photohounds
20 March 2012
 Before the rabid fans get in, this must be a conservative plot ;-)


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Let this not happen to the NBN?
A report this morning credits "vandals" with a cutting a Telstra fibre connection connecting Maitland and the Hunter Valley.

What do you think? Join the discussion.
gnome
20 March 2012
 Of course, it has to be, photohounds.

After all, William says in the story 'Cutting cables is not something we'd normally associate with "vandals"', so it must be them conservatives.

And apropos of nothing in particular, why does the headline gratuitously drag in the NBN?
Doc Harry
21 March 2012
 During WWII W.C.Wentworth in an exercise landed a group of Commandos at Maroubra and overnight worked his way to Liverpool while taking over and closing down every telephone exchange on the way. Upon reaching Liverpool he felt he had proved his point and so surrendered.
Meanwhile his actions created mayhem shutting down communications and making it almost impossible for the powers to be to communicate with each other and stop his progress.
The NBN is a new piece of infrastructure using state of the art technology yet employing 1800's technology in stringing it from poles.
Townsville has just had their overhead NBN Cable brought down by for a second time by a cyclone in 12 months. this is not just poor planning but poor economic planning also. but more importantly communications were badly disrupted at a time of critical need. Yet this need not have happened if only the planners were allowed to start with a clean piece of Paper and did that which is done in other developed western countries and buried the cable where it is safe from such sever environmental affects while at the same time hiding it from economic vandals and hostile insurgents.
photohounds
22 March 2012
 gnome - the headline?
"there's only one thing worse than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about." Oscar Wilde :)

And yes, conservatives have stood in the way of every major advance in history if some are to be believed.

... like the Hoover dam for instance ...
rubaiyat
23 March 2012
 Hmmmm, Ducky, that wall just has to go!
weary74
23 March 2012
 cables being cut both intentionally and unintentionally has happened well before this. Its just another way to keep the NBN in the news.
photohounds
24 March 2012
 Must be fun to 'make' news (and here, by implication, excuses) for NBN's poor progress.

Also its accompanying lack of accountability, competition, business sense, smoke and mirrors 'achievements and facts' - and so on.
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