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#1287422 19-Apr-2015 20:25

lxsw20:
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Jase2985: you do realise that the entirety of Dunedin is a business fibre area, and the likes of the school, hospital and possibly some of those private business's already have fibre.

your looking at the residentual UFB rollout, your forgetting there is the business network out there already.

OP is saying he is living between two streets that has UFB, and everything else 360 degrees around him has UFB. someone must have stuffed up!

I read suburb not street.

Bit of an article on the outram thing here too, much as GZ loves to take the piss. http://digital.thestar.co.nz/Olive/ODE/STR_Daily/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=U1RSLzIwMTUvMDQvMTY.&pageno=MQ..&entity=QXIwMDEwNg..&view=ZW50aXR5

ah maybe I confused myself. when I read "I was curious as to why the fibre cable stopped 300m away along the street in both directions."

that suggested to me that fibre came from both ways and spared his house.

now that I re-read it does say suburb

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#1287425 19-Apr-2015 20:33

Everywhere around me has fibre to, though I'm in Christchurch.

I watch it coming towards me, and then they go around a corner.

Look up enables web site but it only seems to go six months out, and no plans for where I am at moment.

There's new houses being built down road, and I see they've only got fibre going into them. (From the footpath into house but not actually down the street). Be interesting to see what happens there, as they've have no phone or internet services, for who knows how long, so don't know how they're going to sell them in short term.

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#1287426 19-Apr-2015 20:34

Lurch:
quickymart:
Which street is that? (curious as I used to live in the area).

Corunna... the dead spot of broadband ;-)

its exchange fed thats why

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#1287459 19-Apr-2015 22:39

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought it would be - it's quite a distance from both the Milford and Forrest Hill exchanges.
I used to be on Seaview Rd, up on the hill and had good ADSL2+. If I was still there today, I'd have VDSL :)

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#1288151 20-Apr-2015 23:20

Before the cabinets were installed. I was connected to the Forest Hill exchange. Despite being much further away. (very close to exchange boundary) I still got approx 11Mbit ADSL sync. Cabinet got installed - Sync dropped to 2.5mbit due to mid span injection. Got moved to cabinet - Sync went to almost 16Mbit.

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#1288365 21-Apr-2015 11:46

DarthKermit: Ultimately, it's the government through Crown Fibre Holdings that determines the schedule of the rollout.

Chorus is merely one of the contractors who bid for the work.

I would have thought so too but when I wrote to the minister asking why certain suburbs were being completed first I received the following response:

Chorus is a private company and as such is responsible for their own schedule of work. As a minister of the Crown I am not able to intervene in the day to day planning and operation decisions of Chorus, or other companies that are carrying out work under the UFB programme.

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#1288509 21-Apr-2015 14:02

meesham:
DarthKermit: Ultimately, it's the government through Crown Fibre Holdings that determines the schedule of the rollout.

Chorus is merely one of the contractors who bid for the work.

I would have thought so too but when I wrote to the minister asking why certain suburbs were being completed first I received the following response:

Chorus is a private company and as such is responsible for their own schedule of work. As a minister of the Crown I am not able to intervene in the day to day planning and operation decisions of Chorus, or other companies that are carrying out work under the UFB programme.

As I remember it, Chorus proposed a couple-years-ahead detailed plan as part of the bid process, which CFH approved it. CFH being an org controlled by the crown but not directly run by Ministers.
I also remember that in the first couple of years both Remuera and Otara were part of the rollout, so there was never any suggestion of economic bias, apart from the well publicised business/schools/hospitals are priority.

Edit: spelling

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#1289755 22-Apr-2015 20:28

From what I understand, it is generally decided by crown fibre holdings:
1) Schools and Business' first.
2) Expanding into areas where smaller sets of business' are.
3) In new subdivisions they will always lay Fibre.
4) They tend to replace areas with Older Copper Lines which have more faults before newer copper areas.
From there on In I dont really know how they determine who gets UFB next. But one would assume more densely populated areas before less.

I saw chorus and some workers digging a hole at the end of my road today. So got a bit excited. But I suspect still a couple of years till I will be able to access UFB :(

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