Documents containing information on DPBO ((Downstream Power Back Off)
Dear NBN Co Limited,
Please provide the follwoing information.
Any correspondence sent to (or from) members of NBNco Government Relations Team discussing:
Downstream Power Back Off (DPBO);
NBN-ADSL co-existence;
interference with (or to) ADSL services.
Please limit this search between the following dates 1 December 2019 to 28 Feburary 2020.
If there are any documents identified within the scope of this request:
Please remove any information that may identify an NBNCo employee (or external person) prior to release. (EG: Email signatures, to/from email addresses, person/street/suburb names)
Yours faithfully,
MG
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
Please see attached correspondence.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
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Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of nbn co limited.
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F192070
Dear Rohan Singh,
I would like to clarify my request as per below.
Please provide any documents:
1. Sent via email from an NBNCo email address on 17 Feburary 2020;
and
2. The subject line of the email correspondence contains the exact words: "Charllick Road".
The following information (if present in any documents) is not requested and can be removed/redacted:
1. Sender name(s) and email address(es)
2. Recipient name(s) and email address(es)
3. Any other person(s) name(s)
Yours sincerely,
MG
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
Thank you for your email to nbn’s FOI Officer email address.
Before I commence processing your application, could you please clarify
whether by "documents sent via email" you are requesting:
1. only attachments to emails,
2. covering emails and attachments; or
3. emails only.
I look forward to your response.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
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the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
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message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
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F202108
NBN Classification - Restricted
Dear MG
Thank you for clarifying. I will revert to you in due course.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by
the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this
message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
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F202108
Dear Rohan Singh,
The legislated 30 day time limit to respond to this FOI request has expired and I have not received a response.
Should I assume NBNCo is refusing to respond to this FOI request?
Yours sincerely,
MG
Dear MG.
A decision is due today. You will receive a decision later today.
Regards
Rohan
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
In relation to this request (nbn reference FOI-2021/08), a decision is
currently due on 14 August 2020. The date stated in my previous email
does not apply to this request. My apologies for the confusion.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by
the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this
message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
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F202108
Dear Rohan Singh,
I submitted the request/clarification on 1 July 2020, and you replied on 15 July 2020 requesting further clarification before you began to process the request. I provided clariifcation the same day (15 July 2020).
By my reckoning (and by the information provided by OAIC), a response was due by 31 July 2020 (or at most 1 August 2020).
You now state that this request is due by 14 August 2020. Can you please help me understand how an additional two weeks has been added to the timeframe before a response is due?
Yours sincerely,
MG
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
Thank you for your email.
The processing time for an FOI application does not commence until the
request is sufficiently clear. This did not occur until I received your
15 July 2020 email. Accordingly, my decision is currently due on 14
August 2020.
I will be in touch regarding the next steps for your request shortly.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by
the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this
message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
PLEASE CONSIDER OUR ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING
F202108
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
Please see attached correspondence regarding your FOI application.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by
the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this
message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
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F202108
Dear Rohan Singh,
I would like to narrow the scope of my request as follows:
> Please only include any emails. Exclude any attachments.
I trust by only including the text of any emails and excluding any attachments, this potentially reduces the amount of processing time, and therefore reduces the amount of processing fees payable.
Yours sincerely,
MG
NBN Classification - Commercial
Dear MG
Thank you for your email.
You have indicated that you would like to rescope your application to
include emails only and to exclude any attachments to emails. You have
also enquired whether this would reduce the processing fees. I am not
treating your email below as a formal request to rescope your FOI
application, but rather as an enquiry as to whether the proposed rescoped
request would reduce the processing fees. Please clarify urgently if this
is not your intention.
Please note that a valid rescoped request is effectively a new FOI
application, and would restart the processing period.
For your reference, your proposed rescoped FOI application would not
reduce the amount of processing time or fees.
In the circumstances, within 30 days of my letter dated 7 August 2020, you
are required to:
o agree to pay the charge and forward the deposit; or
o contend that the charge has been wrongly assessed, or should be
reduced or not imposed (you should provide full reasons for your
contention); or
o withdraw your request.
If you do not, your request will be taken to have been withdrawn.
Alternatively, you can formally change the scope of your request. As
mentioned above, a valid rescoped request would constitute a new FOI
application and restart the processing period.
Please feel free to call me on 02 9031 3022 if you wish to discuss your
request.
Regards
Rohan Singh
Senior Legal Counsel │FOI, Privacy & Knowledge Management
Corporate Advisory and Systems Engineering & Operations Legal Team
Level 13/100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
nbn acknowledges and pays respects to the traditional custodians of all
the lands upon which we work.
Notice to recipient: This e-mail is intended only to be read or used by
the addressee. It is confidential and may contain information that is
subject to legal professional privilege or protected by copyright. If you
are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
delivery of the message to that person), you may not copy or deliver this
message to anyone, and you should destroy this message and kindly notify
the sender by reply e-mail. Copyright, confidentiality and legal
professional privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken
delivery to you. Emails to/from nbn co limited ABN 86 136 533 741 may
undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party
contractors, however, nbn co limited does not guarantee that any email or
any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted
or unexpected inclusions. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to
be the views of nbn co limited.
PLEASE CONSIDER OUR ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING
F202108
MG left an annotation ()
The information I was after (that is, NBNCo does not intend to turn off DPBO in areas of the fixed line rollout) has been made available via a submission (6.1) to the JSC on the NBN.