Comments on: Tassie Premier considers NBN opt-out model

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:14:09 +0000

Linked to it on Delinker — great post!

By: Wolf Cocklin

Wolf Cocklin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:27:39 +0000

I have expanded on my idea about the problems for renters over at my blog ( my name is a link)

As I think this kind of is a bit beyond just what this article was saying :-)

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:01:09 +0000

True :) We’re currently trying to get ours to put in an elementary piece of equipment so we can operate more than one heater at a time. You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is!

By: MLAtkin

MLAtkin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:35:31 +0000

“It will take 50 years before landlords really understand fibre”

That fast, eh? They don’t even understand water up here :)

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:22:37 +0000

*sigh* yeah, to be honest you are right. It will take 50 years before landlords really understand fibre — they are generally not young. +1 to the idea of making fibre connections mandatory to avoid the whole nightmare of even calling the real estate agent.

By: MLAtkin

MLAtkin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:11:40 +0000

“Is that seriously an issue? I mean I know there are some tighass landlords out there,”

Understatement of the century. It took my last landlord six months to repair cyclone damage to the roof. If he’d done that sooner he would have avoided the repairs to the kitchen cupboards. Or maybe I’m confusing tightass with clueless :)

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:53:00 +0000

Is that seriously an issue? I mean I know there are some tighass landlords out there, but I would have thought that anyone who owned a house would be absolutely crazy not to pony up the couple of hundred dollars it will undoubtedly cost to get fibre connected.

And I’m not sure whether you really have to get permission to get fibre connected to the house if you’re renting it — I mean you don’t have to ask the landlord to get the Telstra copper cable connected now — even if you want more than one line.

By: Wolf Cocklin

Wolf Cocklin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:20:40 +0000

One possible advantage of the OPT OUT model would be that it will increase the number of rental houses that have access to the NBN.

Once the roll out begins on the mainland, certainly in the future whether or not a house has NBN access would be a defining rule as to whether or not I would even apply for that property in the future.