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Yes Goodluck Jester! We recently had NBN installed in our Sydney apartment block and it is a ” process ” ( I say recently but i think from first NBN letter to Strata to final install took about 20 months ). At our first meeting with NBN, the OC dealt with a rep from NBN, I think there may have been a Telstra rep, a rep representing the head contractor for NBN and a couple of guys from one of many subcontracting firms employed by the head contractor to do the install. In Jester’s case, NBN would’ve have informed owners / strata that NBN was coming to their suburb and organised a meeting with the OC. Our building had HFC for cable TV and thought they’d be used but NBN refused to use existing cabling as they couldn’t guarantee the integrity of the existing cable and would prefer to core new holes and put their new cabling in for the block ( hmmm? ). It may also depend on what type of NBN is to be installed in your Building FTTC, FTTN or FTTP. I think ours was FTTC, NBN came into a distribution box from the street then into our basement to a box and cabling in ducts was brought up and outside everyones’ front door. I think that is all the owners have to do. Renters can then chose any NBN provider and the provider will bring the NBN into property and put a socket in the wall as part a contract between renter and NBN provider. If an owner wanted to they could bring the cabling in and install a socket for the property. Another issue to look out for when ADSL is turned off is emergency phones in lifts. We needed to source a mobile phone plan for our lift as existing phone lines would be cut off and lifts,by law, require a phone in case of emergency and blackouts.
Good Luck