ACRS e-Connect – Winter 2016

ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH THE NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY? Read this extract from NECA news June 2016 to catch up. Have your say in PwC’s Skills for Australia’s Industry Voice Survey We would like you to have a further opportunity to provide...

ACRS e-Connect – Autumn 2016

ADVICE TO CABLERS Electricians or any other person, unless they hold an appropriate cabling registration or are being directly supervised by someone who does hold an appropriate cabling registration, are not permitted to install/maintain/repair any telecommunications...

ACRS Winter 2015 Newsletter

Cabling Telecommunications cabling is the responsibility of either the network owner (for example NBN Co and Telstra) or the customer, depending on which side of the ‘network boundary’ the cabling is located. The network boundary point is typically the first phone...

ACRS e-Connect – November 2014

Connecting to NBN Co’s multi technologies network The last edition of the newsletter provided an expose of the technologies that NBN co will use to deliver the high speed broadband service to the premises. The technologies are: Fibre to the home (FTTH) Fibre to the...

ACRS e-Connect – October 2014

NBN WILL COME TO YOU VIA MULTI TECHNOLOGIES The original concept of the NBN was to be fibre to the premise for 93% of dwelling and then satellite and fixed wireless for the remaining 7%. Under the new government the idea is to use a mixture of technologies (which is...

Electrical safety in ceiling spaces campaign

Homeowners and tradespeople are urged to turn off all the main power switches at the switchboard before heading up into the ceiling space. There are serious electrical safety risks in ceiling spaces. Whether you are a homeowner or a tradie, there is one simple thing...