[plug] Telstra CLI/CID Question

[Len Bird]

The situation with Telstra vis-a-vis responsibility for wiring and equipment
depends upon what you choose to pay them by way of rental. If like me you want to
minimise this you can opt for a termination of Telstra's area of responsibility
at the FIRST point of access to your premises. What you then connect to this is
very much your own business provided that it complies with the Austel
Specification. You can buy any amount of type approved extension wiring and
equipment from K-Mart Tandy Dick Smith and others not to mention Telstra
themselves reasonably assured that you will not be transported for life to Van
Dieman's land. The $80,000 fine  or whatever is a typical Public Service furphy
which really relates to digging up Telstra's cables or the like.  This MAY extend
to hired equipment from Telstra within your premises, the moral is that you pay
them less and incurr less liability!

Len Bird

John Summerfield wrote:

> >
> >
> > By the way does anyone know if it is true that unless you have your Austel
> > licence you cannot do computer cabling as with the Internet this means that
> > your system becomes part of Telstra's network ??? Apparently a cabler told
> > me that I could be up for an $80,000 fine under the legislation because I
> > ran some utp through a cabling duct in the wall.
>
> Sounds like hot air to me; carry it a step further and any electician
> would have to be Austel-licenced too because compuers (and faxes) connect
> Western Power to the telephone network.
>
> Truth is, power supplies and modems isolate each from the other.
>
> .
>
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> John Summerfield
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