Is West Coast SI, part of NZ ??

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#2626928 26-Dec-2020 15:20

oh in case you thought I was joking - https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018775684/surgeon-resigns-from-greymouth-hospital-in-protest

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/300174175/departing-surgeon-says-dhb-not-giving-west-coasters-the-care-they-deserve

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#2626929 26-Dec-2020 15:26

Batman:

Try giving birth in the west coast

Stay on the subject..

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#2626931 26-Dec-2020 15:34

Batman:

oh in case you thought I was joking - https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018775684/surgeon-resigns-from-greymouth-hospital-in-protest

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/300174175/departing-surgeon-says-dhb-not-giving-west-coasters-the-care-they-deserve

If you want to quote off subject, then you should expand your reading to include those maternity establishments that have reopened in other areas, my final comment on this off topic discussion...

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#2626955 26-Dec-2020 16:45

My disclosure: I was born and raised on the Coast for the first 17 years of my life as well, and I know that the area in question is quite sparsely populated. It's also very rugged, rough (not to mention isolated) terrain - it's definitely not smooth rolling plains or anything like Canterbury, for example. Cable repairs (as Mr Biddle and John correctly state) can take a LONG time to get done, it's never as simple as "let's just rejoin the cable where the cut happened, and we're all good".

Having said that, Chorus are currently in the process of building a fibre line from south of the glaciers running through to Wanaka (from memory) - this will give the Coast some redundancy if something like this happens again.

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#2626960 26-Dec-2020 16:51

It's not so much the failure but the lack of information and lack of media coverage about it.

(From many people I still know over there)

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#2626964 26-Dec-2020 17:23

Presumably that same media information would be delivered over the (now broken) fibre.

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#2626965 26-Dec-2020 17:27

So people outside the affected area can know why they can't get hold of the people inside the affected area.

(Especially given the larger than normal volume of (Christmas related) calls etc)

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#2626967 26-Dec-2020 17:36

msukiwi:

It's not so much the failure but the lack of information and lack of media coverage about it.

(From many people I still know over there)

There are outages that occur on a daily basis across NZ. Clearly the mainstream media aren't going to report every outage because 99% of people couldn't care less about these.

Newsrooms are pretty quiet places on Xmas day, I guess the fact that an outage affecting even a few thousand people isn't something that they deem newsworthy.

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#2626968 26-Dec-2020 17:36

Most faults affecting me as a Aucklander never make it to the media, let alone the faults page of certain providers. Why should the West Coast be given special treatment...? Or perhaps Auckland is not part of NZ too given the amount of faults that occur here that never get mentioned in the media.

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#2626972 26-Dec-2020 18:12

As a non aucklander, I would have said the opposite.

Auckland is new Zealand.

If it didn't happen in auckland it didn't happen in nz...

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#2627005 26-Dec-2020 19:45

nztim: Real question is why aren’t farmers and other people using beforeudig.co.nz - In my neighbourhood last month the gas company cut through a 50 pair cable resulting in 20 rushed UFB installs

Whats the bet it was installed by chorus in a ruggedized microduct in less than spade depth trench?

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#2627013 26-Dec-2020 20:14

Graymond:

I have a friend residing in Hokatika who lost broadband and Cell phone yesterday (Xmas Day) for a number of hours, he had tried to find out why, with no luck, however through his other communication sources he heard that a Farmer ? had dug up a fibre cable and there was a two hour wait for technicians to arrive from Christchurch.

The query is, why was this not mentioned on 2degrees fault page,

and why was the news media so quite, if it had been a larger population area it would have made Headlines.

There was another service Provider involved which showed no problems.

Due to the responses that have been posted, I am resubmitting the query so that you all do not loose track, and not go of course with your replies.

Were 2degrees not notified of this fault, if they were why was it not posted ?

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#2627017 26-Dec-2020 20:21

Linux: Are you aware of how long it takes to join Fibres back together out in the middle of a paddock?

Please tell us all about the Fibre qualifications you have?

Chorus and all the major carriers have engineers on call over every single public holiday as I know from first hand experience

I am aware of how long some repairs take, and the technicalities involved.

Perhaps you can explain to us why there is not a loop back at the main West Coast fibre termination whereby a fault on the incoming feed can be isolated and the Coast run as a stand alone system,perhaps to technical...

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#2627019 26-Dec-2020 20:24

RunningMan:

Presumably that same media information would be delivered over the (now broken) fibre.

Would it now, you not heard of other communication systems that have been running for many years ??

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#2627020 26-Dec-2020 20:42

Graymond:
Linux: Are you aware of how long it takes to join Fibres back together out in the middle of a paddock?

Please tell us all about the Fibre qualifications you have?

Chorus and all the major carriers have engineers on call over every single public holiday as I know from first hand experience

I am aware of how long some repairs take, and the technicalities involved.

Perhaps you can explain to us why there is not a loop back at the main West Coast fibre termination whereby a fault on the incoming feed can be isolated and the Coast run as a stand alone system,perhaps to technical...

I would say cause of cost!

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