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#280161 30-Nov-2020 13:00
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We have 2 houses on one site (i.e on 1 title), a main house and a flat. Its in a new subdivision so no copper wiring nearby. Vodafone are telling us that Chorus will only do one connection per title as one connection is heavily subsidised and they generally aren't interested in doing a second connection to a site even if they charge for it.  This means we can't have a separate fibre connection for each house. 

 

If this is correct, it will cause a major problem right through NZ as a high percentage of new houses are being built with secondary dwellings on the same site, driven by the housing shortage.

 

Has anyone else had a better outcome or know a solution? Vodafone say they have no other type of service they can provide in this particular location

 

It's taken Vodafone 4 months to tell us this, so very frustrating


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  #2613875 1-Dec-2020 11:03
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There is a relatively straight forward solution if the OP chooses to set up the secondary dwelling in a specific way. 

 

Let's say for argument's sake that the address of the primary land parcel is 2 Sample St.

 

If the minor dwelling onsite is to have it's own letterbox with a unique postal address (eg 2A Sample St) and the power meter for that dwelling will have a matching unique address registered with the Electricity Authority, then Chorus can treat the minor dwelling as Infill Build. This means a separate & unique address can be created in our system and we can build a second fibre dropoff to the property at the owner/customer's cost. This is a set fee of around $1500 from memory. 

 

However if the minor dwelling does not have a separate and unique postal address, or has a shared power meter with the main dwelling, then it's not really considered to be a fully standalone dwelling and the Infill Build process may not be applicable.

 

So in closing, if the minor dwelling already has a unique postal address issued by NZ post, and a separate power meter with a matching unique address searchable here, then all you need to do is get your preferred RSP to submit an address validation request to Chorus. Once the address has been validated, an order can be placed BAU. At some point in the order process, the customer and/or building owner will be asked to pay the Infill Build fee, then the additional fibre drop-off at the street will be built and the install can then proceed BAU.

 

If you have no plans to have a unique postal address/individual power meters etc, then your options are as others have advised - you could get a port 2 connection on the existing ONT then complete your own Cat 6 cabling to the minor dwelling, or the other option is a Smart Location connection. These are normally used for assets that don't have a street address such as bus shelters, advertising hoardings, ATMs, traffic control boxes, portacoms and the like, and they are based on GPS coordinates. The downside is that the full cost to build network to Smart Locations is chargeable to the customer. 

 

Happy to discuss this particular situation with the OP if they want to ping me. 





The views expressed by me are not necessarily those of my employer Chorus NZ Ltd


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