On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:01, you wrote: > Telecom wired up a bunch of new flats with phone service the other > day... > > They ran cable in off the street along a fence in a nice bit of 25mm > tube. > > Telstra came and told my neighbour that they would have to dig up her > garden, smash her foot path and then reconcret if I wanted to have > Telstra cable in my unit (second back from the road). She said NO. > > A bit of 25mm tube would be unnoticeable and would mean she wouldn't > damage it but that's not good enough for Telstra... > > On the other hand, a 400mm trench would be good enough, but what happens > next year when she decides to dig over the garden to put some new plants > in...? errr...
Hmm. My Telstra cable service is strung from a pole outside my house. I don't have one of the little green louvred boxes outside my house (which is where the buried cables pop up)- it just hangs from the pole to an anchor on the eaves. My electric supply and (old, unused) Telecom line comes off the same pole. A
