New property phone line to road

[stumps.]

I have just purchased an investment property that is brand new. I need to organise to get the phone line from the house hooked up to the road.

I have googled, spoken to Telstra and GA Perry and no one seems to know who to call?

Any ideas? Also cost?

[cplagz]

To the Telstra pit out the front of your house? Any sparky with a telco licence can do it AFAIK.

[R3N]

SSICK?

[MMM]

I did my own

[cplagz]

I did my own

and if you fuck something up you are liable to pay to repair anything damaged...

[SSICK]

I did my own

So you knew which pair had your number assigned to it? You did the jumpering at the exchange?

[MMM]

Seriously how hard is it to dig a hole and put conduit down into the hole and running a cable through it? And no I didn't connect it at the exchange that's just silly

[stumps.]

Sorted thanks Tom

[South]

So you knew which pair had your number assigned to it? You did the jumpering at the exchange?

Don't you just read the card like everything else, they are always right ;)

[dmwill]

Seriously how hard is it to dig a hole and put conduit down into the hole and running a cable through it? And no I didn't connect it at the exchange that's just silly

I see some sense to part of this. Fuck paying Telstra to dig a trench and lay some conduit.

[2jzlux]

pingpingpingpings wanted 250 dollars to do mine and said if I wanted to dig my own hole it had to be a minimum of 400mm deep.
Couldnt be fucked so I payed him to do it and called round when he was half way through and it would have been lucky to be 100mm deep hole.
Just an excuse to fucking rip you off.

[Marti]

I just paid Telstra 250 to do mine, had to do it as the apartment im in has no connection at all

[cplagz]

Running the conduit and line you can DIY. Connecting it into the pit you can but I wouldn't...especially if your pit is like the one at our development site..... saw a swarm of bees make a nice nest in it today.

[disc0-dan]

Telstra installation is $299 max, which is based on a property that has never been connected before. Anything cheaper than that is a win in my book.

[huggy_b]

Try connecting in a fibre network if you want to get reamed. It was about $1500 from memory and your only options were Telstra or Telstra.

[siladee]

Try connecting in a fibre network if you want to get reamed. It was about $1500 from memory and your only options were Telstra or Telstra.

im sure dad wasn't impressed!

[disc0-dan]

Try connecting in a fibre network if you want to get reamed. It was about $1500 from memory and your only options were Telstra or Telstra.

I have people connected to NBN daily and the max install fee is $299 given its a normal house in the metroish area, that's the actually infrastructure cost to install, not the work on a customers premises. If the customer needs the house sorted, which most do as fibre is new to us, that is covered by NBN co for free.

Not to mention Telstra is not your only option as any service provider can have this sorted as Telstra is not a wholesaler and has no network ownership, so the predatory behaviour your talking about cant actually take place as anyone that offers NBN aka iinet/westnet etc could snap your business up and have this sorted.

[huggy_b]

I have people connected to NBN daily and the max install fee is $299 given its a normal house in the metroish area, that's the actually infrastructure cost to install, not the work on a customers premises. If the customer needs the house sorted, which most do as fibre is new to us, that is covered by NBN co for free.

Not to mention Telstra is not your only option as any service provider can have this sorted as Telstra is not a wholesaler and has no network ownership, so the predatory behaviour your talking about cant actually take place as anyone that offers NBN aka iinet/westnet etc could snap your business up and have this sorted.

Wasn't NBN. Telstra"lube up" Velocity network.

[disc0-dan]

Velocity eyy! OH SHEEEETTTTTT

Not privy to the install costs but that should be identical to the rest from my understanding as its all uniform.

As far as the deals go, they do suck a big fat wang. On a side not, if you moan hard enough they will match the rest of Telstras in market offers for you.

[SimonR32]

If the customer needs the house sorted, which most do as fibre is new to us, that is covered by NBN co for free.

Still happening with Liberal being in power?

[disc0-dan]

Still happening with Liberal being in power?

I cant say ive come across anything to say otherwise and nothing has been communicated to make me believe its changed... yet. But there are changes brewing by the sounds.

[S85FI]

Try connecting in a fibre network if you want to get reamed. It was about $1500 from memory and your only options were Telstra or Telstra.

Telstra thanks ;)