Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-02 Thread Tom Worthington
On 01/03/15 19:41, Jan Whitaker wrote: I've told her she shouldn't have to pay ... NBN have 15 pages of Optional Battery Backup Informed Consent Guidelines:

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-02 Thread JanW
At 08:53 AM 3/03/2015, Tom Worthington wrote: For the phone to work, as well as this battery you need a line powered old fashioned phone, or a cordless phone which has a backup battery in the base station (a few do), or a UPS. She has the analog phones. That's what she had a separate installer

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-01 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 01/03/15 22:07, Paul Brooks wrote: Other ISPs use the NBN voice ports to provide telephony - Telstra does not. This is no longer true as of mid-2013. Telstra provides voice services over the UNI-V port. ___ Link mailing list

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-01 Thread Paul Brooks
On 1/03/2015 10:07 PM, Paul Brooks wrote: The battery backup unit is NBNCos, and backs up the NBN Co box's telephone ports (but not the data ports). Correction - apparently the battery backup does keep the data ports going during a mains power outage these days. It didn't in the early days,

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-01 Thread Paul Brooks
The battery backup unit is NBNCos, and backs up the NBN Co box's telephone ports (but not the data ports). The 'home gateway' modem her phone plugs into is Telstra's, which connects to the data port in the NBN Co Box - as Telstra Bigpond don't use the telephone ports in the NBN box, they insist

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-01 Thread Paul Brooks
On 2/03/2015 9:17 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote: On 01/03/15 22:07, Paul Brooks wrote: Other ISPs use the NBN voice ports to provide telephony - Telstra does not. This is no longer true as of mid-2013. Telstra provides voice services over the UNI-V port. Telstra retail Bigpond, or Telstra