So what about telephone, water, gas, electricity, cable TV. They all go
"through the wall" in a manner of speaking.
Howard.
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Lane, Richard M wrote:
>
> Strata vs. Torrens title.
>
> If you own a unit, you don't own the walls, only the airspace within
> the walls. The body corporate owns the walls. Therefore you can't
> give Optus permission to drill a hole in the wall for their cable to go
> through, only the body corporate can. The body corporate is probably
> next to impossible to deal with, and very slow to respond to requests.
> Once you include lawer and letter writing time, plus the months of delay
> getting approval to drill the hole in the wall, units would be monstrously
> more expensive to install cable in. Strata title is AWFUL, I'm very glad
> to have sold my unit and bought an old townhouse.
>
> "But I can get Foxtel!"
>
> Yup, because the building was wired with coax when it was built. This is
> very common with recent unit blocks. Guess who negotiated the rights
> to use this cable, with the developer (not body corp.) when the building
> was constructed? Telstra, not Optus. Don't ask why but more than
> 90% of developments with built in cable are connected to Foxtel, not
> Optus, and Optus will not be allowed to connect to that cable. It could
> easily be 100%, I don't beleive that Optus ever persued unit connections
> for its cable TV.
>
> The last problem is that Optus have suspended their cable rollout.
> If you can't get Optus cable now, don't expect it any time soon,
> if ever.
>
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