Charging issues on Fluke 990 CopperPro test set.
Category: Australian Telco
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Australia’s fake Phone Numbers
Numbers that will never connect, reserved for use in TV/Movies & Books.
A research paper from the 1960s examining how Telecommunications pillars hold up to gunfire…
The buttinski test phones I know and love.
My holiday reading list for 2020.
Key changes in Australia’s AS/CA S009:2020 (Installation requirements for customer cabling
(Wiring Rules))
At 82 years old and weighing in at 140Kg, this is how telephone switching used to be done…
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NBNCo Transit Demystified
A look into how NBN’s transit model works.
Importing Elevation data from ELVIS into Forsk Atoll
Taking a look at the black (and white) boxes inhabiting pits in NBN FTTC neighborhoods.
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Call routing in LNP
How call routing including Donor Routing works in LNP.
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LNP / Porting FAQ
Technical FAQs on Number Porting in Australia
What goes on in the background with Local Number Porting in Australia
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NBN FTTN Nodes in Disguise
Undercover FTTN.
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End of ISDN in Australia
Australia’s largest carrier will begin disconnecting ISDN services, marking the end of circuit switched telephony in Australia.
ENUM was going to change telephone routing. No longer would you need to pay a carrier to take your calls across the PSTN, but rather through the use of DNS your handset would look up a destination and route in a peer to peer fashion. Number porting would just be a matter of updating NAPTR […]
Using Kamailio to route traffic to the nearest geographical RTPengine instance for lowest latency/best experience.
Description of E.164 and 0-NDC-SN numbering used in Australia
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SMS Security – Banks
The other day I got an SMS from my bank, one of the big 4 Australian Banks. BANKNAME Alert: Block placed on card ending in XXXX, for suspicious transaction at ‘THING NICK PURCHASED ONLINE’ for $29.00 at 13:56. If genuine, reply ‘Yes’. If Fraud, reply ‘No’. SMS from bank They’d detected possible fraud on my […]
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PMG / Erricson 3 line 8 ext PMBX
It’s no great secret I collect old phone stuff, I got this Melbourne made PMBX (Private Manual Branch Exchange) a while back, and I finally got around to doing something with it. I’ve cleaned all the relays, got all the electronics happy (still need to replace the ring generator), taken everything out, sanded it, varnished […]