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Regarding the interference issue, I have seen a letter from TPG/Pipe in which they concede that interference is a potential problem.
What you want is a high-speed provider who will let you connect to your choice of ISP ( aposition supported by the NSW Fair Trading Minister). I think the actions of TPG in this regard have been unnecessarily aggressive and I wouldn’t be rushing to sign up with them as a result. There are other players, including Firstpath who just released the press release below.
I am not promoting Firstpath but I think it speaks volumes that they are already compliant with the new rules and they are wholesalers and not the infrastructure arm of a retailer.
If you can’t wait to get broadband installed, and NBN is a long way off, you should perhaps be calling them.
FROM FIRSTPATH:
In response to the Carrier License Conditions (CLC) Determination made by the Minster yesterday, FirstPath is pleased to announce our “Residential End User Superfast Services” from the 1 January 2015.
- 20 POI’s nationally in Telco Neutral DC’s (rather than 121 NBN POI’s)
- Lower costs and more options for resellers to connect
- Optional FirstPath backhaul meaning only one POI per State or Territory initially required
- Easy migration between business & residential services as end users needs change
- Pilot sites have been very successful
- 1 month contract duration option allowing true 4G and wireless compete
- “Parking” of services allowed
- Over 140 resellers already connected
- Over 200,000 residential end users within 1 km, roadmap to be published early 2015
- Other features still to be announced
- As one of the few carriers that is already compliant with the CLC this new offering is designed to give more ISP’s the ability to compete and deliver residential services with the FirstPath network.