Ramifications if I connected up fibre myself

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inane

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#194937 30-Mar-2016 23:05

Typing on mobile due to huge tethering bill, and chorus being terrible.

If I was to wire up fibre (or have one of my engineers do it) what ramifications are there?

I can source a compatible ONT and have qualified guys at my disposal, so if I had it wired it up - with consent from Wellington Electricity, what would happen?

I'm sick of Chorus' blatant lies, I got told they were waiting on consent from Wellington Electricity. I have written evidence that a month after they said that Wellington Electricity haven't received a single consent application for my whole Street. (As of early March)

Now chorus claim they need another two site visits then they will apply for consent.

If I cut them out of the process, would I be breaking a law or just circumventing their broken process?

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Lorenceo

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#1523048 31-Mar-2016 01:02

If you did manage to get a rogue ONT onto the Chorus network you'd get no connectivity from it. The equipment on the other end of the fibre (OLT) only allows registered ONTs to connect. Then on top of that, ONTs needs to be provisioned by Chorus to allow traffic to get to/from the respective RSP's handover. I can't speak for what RSPs do, but again I doubt they'll allow unknown connections from their handover access to their network. This is all assuming that there actually is a fibre cable in the street heading back to the exchange, connected to the OLT. Depending on the area, the cables sometimes need to be blown from an aggregation point through ducting in the street and spliced in.

If you did manage to get one connected, Chorus would probably come looking for it at some point. Doubt they'd be too pleased with an unauthorised device (and cable) being connected to their network. Might result in fines? Not really sure to be honest.

Wellington Electricity consents can be a bit hairy. There have been quite a few horror stories posted about it. Best bet is to contact your RSP, explain the situation, and request that your case be escalated based on Chorus not meeting their commitments.

jnimmo

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#1523058 31-Mar-2016 06:39

At the very least, 106 of the Telecommunications Act 2001

Even if the contractors had access to the Exchange the port wouldn't be live. The contractors would probably lose any accreditations they have and never be allowed in an Exchange again.

sbiddle

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#1523064 31-Mar-2016 07:23

As summed up pretty well above by @lorenceo you can neither source an ONT (it won't work) nor cable your own fibre (where would you connect it?)

Wellington Electricity are a nightmare for access. Dealings with them have caused many network redesigns in the past year and a general avoidance on having to use their poles unless absolutely necessary. My street for example (went live in May last year) was delayed by a couple of months while they redesigned the network to have ducting on both sides of the streets to avoid overhead leadins that required access to Wellington Electricity poles.