Reply With QuoteYes it's the government's fault the storm came and killed the power..... It's also Scottys fault the electriction fell off the ladder...
OldBushie
I live up in the Hinterland, above the Gold Coast. On Friday afternoon, during a pretty savage storm, we list power.
By the next morning, we had also lost the NBN, which took out our land line, and the mobile service had gone down as well.
So much for being held to ransom to pay exorbitant power prices and then the same crooks can’t even keep the lights on.
The when we finally got power back on on Saturday after noon, I try contact a company I deal with, to place a late order.
Like me, being a small business, they to week seven days a week.
I finally got through this morning and I thought I had it bad!
Their power went out on Thursday and they only got it back yesterday.
They are in a small NSW central coast town and while their power was out, an electrician, working in their town, fell off a ladder and needed emergence help.
There was no way anybody could contact the outside world, so they had to put him in a private vehicle and drove him 30kms to the nearest Amp centre in Tuncuury, where they were able to radio for help.
The poor guy was taken by helicopter to Newcastle.
He is in an induced coma with two broken wrists ,multiple broken ribs a
punctured lung and head injuries.
I would just like to thank all the politicians who have played a hand in destroying our communication systems and turned us into a third would country.
Wizard
Yes it's the government's fault the storm came and killed the power..... It's also Scottys fault the electriction fell off the ladder...
OldBushie
We once had land lines that worked, regardless of weather conditions.
The phones no long work WHY?
ForumSage
There is no Battery backup in the NBN Fiber Nodes. So neither internet nor fixed line (POTS) customers have any service. (even if you install the optional battery backup in your premises)Originally Posted by drivesafe
You can blame the Australian Government for that. Also Australia is the Only Country in the world that does not have trace wires with their optic cables .( cost cutting) Makes them impossible for Dial Before You Dig to locate , so expect massive disruptions in the future when an excavator digs up a cable in your vicinity. Its why I got out of the cable locating business , you cant insure against stupidity.
Telstra Mobile towers have a 4-6 hours battery backup at most. But when the PSTN / NBN network is out the extra drain on the limited capacity makes it even worse. There is a emergency external generator connection on mobile towers but if the NBN is out or the other end of microwave link is out that wont help much. Its a shambles.
The old PMG / Telecom copper network had built in redundancy, if a microwave link fell over you would get switched to coax or copper or vice versa . thats all gone now.
OldBushie
Optus towers have the exact same limited time of operation, once the power goes out.
Swaggie
quote..You can blame the Australian Government for that....quote
you can basically blame one member of the Australian Government for that.
Isnt it amazing that one persons dogged principles can hold so many people to ransome?
TopicToaster
Getting close to C.A. here, not that that bothers me one iota, just good "topical" conversation.
Maybe one can blame the "Government", but certainly, ALL blame does not rest with the current one.
Lots of confusion, lack of foresight, too much "points scoring", on both sides, AFAIAC,.....but, in terms of forum rules, only IMHO of course.
Pickles.
Swaggie
People who live in small communities would do well to find out if there is a local amateur radio operator. Also, a regular outback traveller may have a satellite phone or HF radio.
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Swaggie
Subscribersimple fact is redundancy costs money, lots of money.
people want cheaper bills. phone, electricity, etc etc.
to make costs cheaper, companies leave out redundancy.
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OldBushie
I have my opinion as to who is responsible but this is not the point now.
The problem is that none of the political factions has any intentions of fixing this ridiculous situation.
All our polititions are guilty of totally ignoring the unsafe state of our joke of a communications system.
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