Well in 2 weeks I have seen two rubbish UFB installs and am just flat out sick of coming across them. Our tax payers dollars are going in to a network that looks like something out of Vietnam due to lazy installs and bad QA work from the governing bodies. Thought I would just post up here as I think the main problem is that customers aren't aware this isn't OK and that they need sorting. I feel I am allowed to say these are cr4p because I have actually done UFB installs and know the lengths I had to go to to meet Chorus specs (conduit, stainless saddles appropriate location etc).

1. Porirua.
Single tenant, no shared driveways.
This was my first experience with Chorus' new "rigid" ribonet. The ribonet had simply been jointed in to the main conduits out on the footpath and then tacked, un-protected, (very sparingly) along a 25m fence line. Just takes one low life to come and pull that and there goes your connection! Once it got to the building there was a couple of metres between the fence and building so the ribonet just got draped down the fence an dug in (very very shallow) to get across to the building. From here it comes back out of the ground and is once again tacked (at ground level) along in a garden. I don't care how tough they think this ribonet is, it is still tiny. One decent hit with a shovel and there goes the connection. From here it gets taken up the side of the building and then just drilled straight through (like a Sky installer) and in to the ONT's position.
Unfortunately no photos of this as I was just so ropeable at the time I just left.

2. Hastings.
Single tenant, no shared driveways.
I encountered this one just today, I was there for a PABX install. Took a picture of this because it is just so lazy I couldn't believe it....



The ONT just simply lying in the bottom of a 6RU open frame cabinet (Sorry the photo is so small, ha to crop for Geekzone gallery).


With both of these instances I have logged faults with Chorus so they will get fixed. But I can't help think people will just accept this as the norm. It is most definitely not ok!!! Don't sign off your UFB install until you are 100% happy with it. Lazy installers are taking advantage and it's just plain cr4p.

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