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MikeAqua

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#201405 17-Aug-2016 11:17
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A family lives in rural Northland, and UFB is not coming to their short road.  But ... it's tantalisingly close running down the main road.

 

The current internet on their street is ADSL and glacier slow - too slow for internet banking at times, always too slow for streaming.

 

Two thirds of the property owners on the small road are interested in paying for UFB to be extended down their road.  The other owners are absentee owners or people with limited interest in the internet.

 

But they are having trouble getting useful info. Is is there a standard approach to this type of situation?  For example: -

 

They have been told they would have to meet some of the capital costs, and would have to wait sometime for resource to become available.

 

How much % would they have to pay?

 

Who owns capital items that property owners (part) pay for, who maintain/replaces them?

 

If Chorus will get extra revenue from the additional UFB connection, surely there must be some contribution from them?

 

Can property owners who don't contribute to the UFB extension change their minds later or if the properties are purchased by someone who wants in? 

 

If yes do they have to contribute to capital costs, and will the original funders be reimbursed?

 

Any advice appreciated.

 

 





Mike


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  #1613142 17-Aug-2016 11:56
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Where a community group gets together and wants to fund the rollout of network or to upgrade the service available, Chorus will do this, so long as all the costs are covered by those requesting the upgrade.

 

We have done a dozen or more of these in the last 18 months.

 

BUT, just because there is fibre in a nearby road does not guarantee that there is a UFB service available.  Many times the fibre that folks are seeking to connect to is a transmission line, with no local access services running across it, so a breakout and local access build is required before any service leads to local properties get built.  And fibre is not like a gas or water pipe, you cannot just cut into it, you have to go back to the nearest splicing pit where you can make a joint, then feed local access fibre to the property from there.  These can sometimes be kilometres away from the property requesting service. Also, fibre might only be carrying point-to-point services as there may not be any GPON platform in the area.

 

Every request is different.

 

If you are only interested in a single property ask your ISP to request a feasibility to deliver fibre under the NGA on Request process.

 

If there is serious interest from a group of residents who want to work together to share the cost, DM me the details of all the properties concerned and I will get you some idea of what service is available at that location, the work involved to deliver a fibre service and a cost estimate.

 

^GL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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