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#148466 20-Jun-2014 10:02
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These purple marks go up my road, go over the pavement, across the grass verge and terminate on the actual grey Telecoms pole thing at the end of my drive way. A quick walk down the street shows nobody else seems to have this.

Is the NSA now getting a direct line to my house or am I the only person on the street getting UFB?

Other info: There is some construction at the bottom of the street, but they are WEL engineers (electricity) and this purple paint is literally up to and on the Telecoms termination. There are no new subdivisions immediately adjacent to my property. I'm confident it is my Telecoms terminator. Fibre is only due next year.

Can anybody tell me what it means?

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  #1070865 20-Jun-2014 11:39
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A contractor with a shovel, digger, ditch witch, drilling machine, HydroVac or some other form of soil disturbance device has  asked for a Utility company to perform a "markout" service so that the "digger" knows where the underground services are and therefore knows where NOT to dig.  They could be getting ready for UFB upgrade, they could simply be replacing a low pressure water pipe.

The PURPLE/PINK paint indicates Telecommunications network (Copper or Fibre or Duct)
   It will have CHO somewhere in the marking if it is a Chorus network element, other Telcos use different abbreviations.
YELLOW indicates Gas services
BLUE is potable water
WHITE/GREY is Wastewater
RED is Electricity


Remember if you want to dig anywhere near an underground service (even on your own property) call 0800B4UDIG (free service for residential customers) and they will arrange for all the utilities companies to be advised where you are working and they will identify their assets near your worksite to be marked out. 

It requires a bit of planning if all you want to do is put in some fence poles, BUT is a lot cheaper (not to mention safer) than inadvertently hitting something.

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  #1070921 20-Jun-2014 12:26
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gundar:

These purple marks go up my road, go over the pavement, across the grass verge and terminate on the actual grey Telecoms pole thing at the end of my drive way. A quick walk down the street shows nobody else seems to have this.

Is the NSA now getting a direct line to my house or am I the only person on the street getting UFB?

Other info: There is some construction at the bottom of the street, but they are WEL engineers (electricity) and this purple paint is literally up to and on the Telecoms termination. There are no new subdivisions immediately adjacent to my property. I'm confident it is my Telecoms terminator. Fibre is only due next year.

Can anybody tell me what it means?



Basical it looks like it has nothing to do with UFB - but is a mark up for a civils contractor to do a Copper overlay (Hence O/L mark) from point A to point B (Point B being the Copper DP OS your House

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  #1097757 29-Jul-2014 10:50
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Update. WEL installed a power cable up the street and when I got home last night, they were literally on my driveway, right up against the Telekom pole. I pulled up, opened my window and said "I hope my Internet is still on" to which I got "yeah, eveything is fine" and just as I wound up my window, I hear one of the WEL guys quip "we hope" before the crowd broke out in laughter.

This morning, at 8 am, a Chorus guy was at the end of my driveway with what looked like an exploded data cable in one hand.

Yes, the Internet is off.

What a great carefree life it must be to be a WEL contractor.

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