More lies from Turncoat, further evidence that the FTTH rollout was being done on the cheap and too ready to halt work: _______________ Turnbull said that contract had been “dead in the water as far as progress is concerned in Tasmania for months” and he had not seen any reports of progress. He said the project had been “failing Tasmanians”. A spokesperson for Turnbull later clarified with iTnews that Visionstream’s work on the Tasmanian rollout hadn’t stopped completely but had been “very slow and patchy”. The spokesperson said the number of sites in operation was “not substantial at all”, and attributed the slowed work to Telstra pit remediation and pay disputes with subcontractors. Telstra was forced to halt pit-and-pipe remediation work in May for more than two months, after several cases of unsafe asbestos handling were discovered with contractors. Visionstream was similarly forced to stop work on pit remediation in Tasmania during that time. The stop-work became the catalyst for 200 workers being let go by Visionstream subcontractors who weren’t able to pay them, following long-running disputes over pay. ________________ FFS! Better to spend another $10Bn and have contractors/subbies/workers paid a normal rate for telco work so we don’t have these endless troubles. When Telstra, for its own reasons, wanting to get the NBN cheap no doubt, slowed doing its asbestos audit/removal, NBN Co and its contractors should have “immediately” switched to using power poles to run the NBN out in the affected areas! That would make Telstra change its tune! Link: itnews.au/News/359744,turnbull-claims-nbn-work-stalled-in-tasmania.aspx
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:31:49 +0000
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