Telstra is reportedly at loggerheads with the NBN Co over conduit access, reportedly threatening to stall the rollout of NBN fibre in up to 60 new housing estates across Australia.
Telstra is reportedly at loggerheads with the NBN Co over conduit access, reportedly threatening to stall the rollout of NBN fibre in up to 60 new housing estates across Australia.
The telco has refused to hand over blueprints of the conduits it had been commissioned to lay in some new estates, according to ITNews.
NBN Co requires the ownership rights to pit-and-pipe infrastructure before it will agree to roll out fibre.
Developers that commissioned and paid Telstra to design and deploy the NBN-ready conduits are in limbo, according to consultant Robin Russell.
“There’s three or four estates of ours where Telstra have sent documents to say they’ll give ownership [of the conduits to NBN Co] but then they won’t supply AutoCad drawings as constructed and NBN Co says we can’t do anything without AutoCAD drawings,” Russell said.
