JimmyT said
Austman, I just had a look at that link (thanks for that) and this is what it says:
NBN Co plans to connect all apartments within the NBN’s fibre coverage areas. These apartment buildings and other multi-dwelling units will often be connected slightly later than stand-alone houses in a fibre area. This is due to the additional work needed for multi-dwelling units in terms of liaison between NBN Co and the body corporate, and the more extensive internal cabling within the building.
NBNCo are talking about hooking up apartments, not buildings. Where did you read that Owners Corps will have to pay for backboning themselves. My understanding is that NBN Co will pay for installation to the communication hubs on each floor of an apartment (where your phone lines are now) unless the Owners Corp refuses them access.
You could be right JimmyT. There just doesn’t seem to be exact information out there. I can say that with Bigpond/Foxtel/Optus connections it was at the OC’s expense. I know because we had to pay – when it was free (or often free) to houses.
And there is still the installation from the “hub” to the apartment. From what I can find that’s the 23mm (25mm external) conduits. In our building we don’t have hubs at all – just an MDF in the basement and copper phone lines from there to each apartment. 1,000s of smaller building are like that. If we have to pay for the installation from our MDF to each apartment – that’s going to be expensive.