Can someone ELI5 I don't quite understand whats happening here? Did people pay to get fibre installed when they shouldn't have been able to? or pay to get their fibre installed quicker sort of thing?
Datasets like this can easily be interpreted differently because there are so many different companies and people involved. I'd say all the installs I've seen the stats would be 50/50. I might be a bit hard though. I call things like not even putting the ONT on level on the wall shoddy. I call running miniduct along a fence they were advised multiple times was going to be removed shoddy. I call misaligning the fibres so that the connection is crap shoddy. I call spading in the miniduct 20mm into a bit of dirt prone to extreme flooding and therefore rising the duct ready to be chopped by the next mower/linetrimmer dodgy.
I usually do all the grovelling on the installs of houses and businesses that are going to have fiber so that it can go as smooth and tidy as possible (running internal ducting, hybrid cable, ducting and draw wires to street), excepting the straightness issue and the misalignment issue and the crappy miniduct trenching issue which is totally out of my control.
Chorus and its primary contractors are absolutely committed to resolving issues within the sub-contracting environment and Chorus thanks the individuals for raising their concerns in order for them to be thoroughly investigated.
This has to be the most disingenuous and silliest under-statement of the year. Nearly all of your subcontractors were shown to be not complying with minimum labour laws. You don't have issues -- you have utter and rampant lawbreaking within your subcontracting environment.
Chorus and its primary contractors are absolutely committed to resolving issues within the sub-contracting environment and Chorus thanks the individuals for raising their concerns in order for them to be thoroughly investigated.
This has to be the most disingenuous and silliest under-statement of the year. Nearly all of your subcontractors were shown to be not complying with minimum labour laws. You don't have issues -- you have utter and rampant lawbreaking within your subcontracting environment.
do you ever notice how these issues seem to just fizzle out?
Its like no one actually cares
I believe that Chorus should start by addressing "minimum competency" requirements for so called Techs, start with the distribution partner requirements including proper independent onsite competency assessmenmts, If DPs were actually required to employ tradesmen and pay proper money you would find these dodgy contractors would disappear, some of us DO follow the rules and make OK money too but its getting harder and harder to compete for the work against the sheer number of poorly paid and untrained techs
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