Training to work on the NBN Options

[sociopath]

So official NBN training is about to take off. I understand some pilot groups went through an NBN safety induction training program, with training organisations who are approved by NBNCo getting ready to offer the training on a commercial level.

The minimum training required will be the NBN Safety Awareness course - which is essentially the standard construction industry 'White Card' with an NBN flavour to it. Then progressively, NBN will be releasing to the approved training providers - the NBNCo written technical training in FTTH, installing NTD's, MDU cabling and all the other dirty work...

Is this something of interest to people within Atomic?

[Caelum]

Harsh... sure.

Like i said though, it isn't the first time he's said something incorrect, with the authority of someone in the know.



Anyone with an Open cablers registration is able to legally work on a telecomms network of almost any type(not getting into the legality of whose network you can work on, ownership, etc... so lets assume you have authority/etc).

A registered cabler can even do earthing, as long as the earthing doesn't terminate to an electrical switchboard, or similar.


Typically, the NBN related companies are asking more an more for someone with Cert3 in telecommunications before considering employing you. ie, they want someone with OR(open reg), along with endorsements in structured cabling(cat5/cat6/etc), fibre optics, and coax.

As per the other thread going on about this topic at the moment, this is going to become a legal requirement from all new registrations from 1st July 2012 onwards. Those who already have OR, have 2 years to get these 3 endorsements. One you've got your OR, along with all 3 endorsements, you may as well have your Cert3 anyway, there's about 10 hours of 'online' modules left to do, and you've got cert3 in telecomms.

so are we going to see another home insulation scandal, with dodgy installers popping up and becoming NBN techs doing half assed jobs and leaving customers with less than adequate connections.....?

Very unlikely. Anyone doing NBNCo contractor work will be certified as required. That means at least they'll KNOW how to do the job properly. Fibre is pretty picky with its terminations... But it's quite easy to get right. Splicing fibre isn't difficult, you just need to follow some simple sanitary requirements, regarding dust/etc. I don't think i've had a splice with more than 0.04dB loss... typically 0.02 on a normal splice.

That said, there are always lazy people out there doing customer side wiring, and those saying they're registered cablers when they really aren't. Most people dont know that you can check to see if someone is registered or not. It's dead easy. I've just checked someone who told me they were a reg'd cabler the other day... they're not on any of the cabling registrars in australia, that's for sure.

This post has been edited by Caelum: May 7 2012, 11:36 PM