Tel$tra downgrading high speed 3rd party ISP ADSL services in Deakin - upgrading users to Tel$tra provisioned slower services on a RIM

This move will impact a large number of businesses in the Phillip area who are currently relying on ADSL 2+ services from providers other than Telstra, including iiNet and Internode. Once the sub-exchange is moved from the Alexander building, businesses wishing to utilise ADSL services will have to do so via Telstra infrastructure, this can be done in two ways:

1. Buying directly from Telstra, i.e, Bigpond
2. Buying from an ISP that resells Telstra ADSL services

I agree this move stifles competition, and is, from my perspective as the operator of an IT business in Phillip who needs fast Internet access (currently on Internode ADSL 2+), extremely annoying. Aside from Internode and iiNet complaining to the ACCC, I’m not sure what Jo Citizen or Jo Business owner can do. At this stage, I will try to raise the matter with the Canberra Business Council along with my local member (both Federal and Local), but I can’t see this having much impact.

I would also suggest that if anyone concerned has some contacts within the Canberra Times and/or local radio (ABC 666 for example), this could be a good way to raise the public profile of this issue.

If you want a parliamentary representative to champion your cause how about you tone down the geek speak and explain stuff in terms the rest of us understand.

E.g. The ability to have LSS and ULLS based ADSL (where the ISP provides ADSL/ADSL+2 internet services

Sure, you seem to know what you’re talking about but it’s hardly going to set the average punter’s heart on fire as a call to action.

Alternatively, you can just argue amongst yourselves as a form of IT acronym p*ssing contest.

They’re all being knocked down Pandy.

I live in Woden and will be directy affected by this. Currently getting ADSL2 through iinet (on the ‘sub-exchange’ in Woden).

Obviously in other parts of the country, telstra’s actions can have an impact where people don’t have any other choices, but this isn’t the case at Deakin. Leave telstra to itself and move to a better and cheaper service.

Complete bollocks. FFS -“Move to a better and cheaper service”??

I’d have to move house into a different area.

Alexander building being demolished? Source?

Indeed

Unbeliever – What? The first paragraph was a bunch of facts. Your second made no sense. Leave Telstra to itself? We can’t. So many competitive consumers services rely on Telstra one way or another: equipment in Telstra exchanges, services provisioned over the copper phonelines that were stupidly privatised with the rest of Telstra years ago.

I guess what needs to happen to fix this is to route copper from the old sub-exchange to the new, so that companies may continue to use the old pairs currently from Deakin towards the old sub-exchange. Whether Telstra should be forced to pay for this is another story. Certainly if their competitors had to pay for it, it might take a long time to pay for itself.

Note that most stories on this seem to leave a bunch of stuff out. As I understand this is NOT the Deakin exchange which is closing. It is a sub-exchange, in the soon-to-be-demolished Alexander Building, Furzer St, Philip/Woden. Telstra are opening a new sub-exchange a few hundred metres down the road in the MLC Building, Furzer Street.

As I understand it, there were no competitor’s DSLAMs in this sub-exchange, but rather lines were patched through to Deakin.

Telstra are taking advantage of the move to run Fibre back to Deakin, and abandon the copper pairs they were using. Fibre is good for Telstra’s future expansion capabilities, but bad for their competitors who have DSLAMs in Deakin: Customers connected with copper all the way from their home/business through the subexchange to a DSLAM Deakin will be disconnected. They will have to move to a Telstra-DSLAM at the new sub-exchange. They can presumably remain a customer of non-Telstra ISP by using a Telstra resold service.

Telstra aren’t planning on having room in the new sub-exchange for competitors’ DSLAMs, either. Perhaps competitors could have their own sub-exchange next door, but I bet Telstra haven’t chosen a site that would make it easy for that to happen. I’m guessing backhaul from the sub-exchange will be non-existant or pricey, too..

What REALLY needs to happen is the current NBN process needs to be scrapped, and the govt needs to encourage a national rollout of FTTH with open access arrangements. A whole new fibre network that does nothing to disrupt existing copper networks, and gives us real speed. Not the mandated 12mbps that half of the customers of Telstra’s competitors are ALREADY getting. Further, direct the $4.7b towards rolling it out from the outside in – to give it to the people who currently have the slowest speeds.

(Wow, what a rant.)

I was refering only to ULL or LSS at the Deakin exchange.

Reading the story, it looks like Philip is the issue, as a sub exchange hanging off of Deakin.

phew… Curtin is OK…

Unbeliever – if telstra do as they plan, the users on the sub exchange cannot get Unbundled Local Loop or Line Sharing Service (The only way to get non-telstra ADSL) ever… They will be forced to use wholesale Telstra services only. Sure, they can pay someone else, but Telstra get the majority of the cash, not the service provider.

I love the semi regular phone call I get from Telstra:

T: “We’ve done a check on your line and see you are no longer with Telstra”

Me: “This phone has never been with Telstra, it’s bundled with my internet and you can’t match any part of the bundle”

T: “We’ve made some changes, we’ve now got ADSL 2/2+ that is the fastest in Australia at 20 Mbps”

Me: “lol you can get faster than that, besides your download limits and costs aren’t in the same league as my provider. Goodbye”

T: “but” *click*

🙂

Telstra operates on the assumption that most people are too ignorant to know that there are better alternatives to its telephone/adsl services. At the Deakin exchange, there is at least one company which can move people’s phone line onto their own ADSL2+ network. Service which are then available are ADSL2+ broadband, VOIP phone service which includes all free local and national landline calls at prices which leaves any offering by telstra behind.

Obviously in other parts of the country, telstra’s actions can have an impact where people don’t have any other choices, but this isn’t the case at Deakin. Leave telstra to itself and move to a better and cheaper service.

The greater good………..
Hott Fuzz…..lol