OK, just had my first call from a friend who has switched to NBN, so let’s sum up …
Each NBN optical fiber, which is thinner than a human hair and can carry 40,000 simultaneous telephone conversations, needs a 23mm conduit to each household.
Compared to your current 110mm x 70mm telephone wallplate, you will get a 180mm x 125mm NBN box.
Which must be near a power point.
But it can’t be behind furniture, because you need to look at the indicator lights.
You also need a UPS, which is about the same size, so two big boxes on the wall.
You need the UPS because, unlike copper wire, there’s no electric current in the fiber, so your corded phone now won’t work in a power outage, for instance to call 000 to report the fallen tree that cut off your power.
But the NBN UPS will only power the NBN box. Your corded phone will then work in a power outage, but not your cordless phone.
It’s not compulsory to connect to the NBN, but copper wire telephone and ADSL services will be switched off 18 months after NBN is installed in your area.
Optical fiber communications can’t be tapped, except that GCHQ and NSA does that in spite of the “facts”.
And NBN doesn’t have clue-one how it’s going to be implemented in multi-dwelling units (25% of the population) or how much it will cost.
Can’t wait!
Suggestions:
1) Don’t invest in a copper mine. There’s gonna be a lot of recycled copper coming on to the market.
2) Cancel your CND (calling number display). A call from a VOIP user (maybe 50% of NBN customers) doesn’t send it.
How the hell are we going to explain all this to the elderly pensioners who’ve downsized to a strata unit and already think the Secretary is a janitor who is available at a moment’s notice to come and get their tin of cat food down from the high shelf for their dinner?
Perhaps they should all be shipped off to a retirement home where there’s a red phone box from which they are permitted to make one call to family per week.
Sorry for that, most of you probably don’t know what a red phone box is.