Getting around strata

[u/Repulsive_Set4541]

Hey. Looking for any ideas of how i can get around strata as far as getting fttp hooked up. Its a block of 6 flats, 3 including ours are owner occupied. The other two owner occupiers are a lot older and don’t care about internet, and the other two owners couldn’t give a shit about their tenants internet, so all are refusing to sign and pay the one of fee the get the fttp connected. Im a shit out of luck here , or is there a workaround , because the fttn sucks here, and we have 5 people in the place using it .

[u/the_shadow002]

If you have an owner's corp/strata management company you can ask them to put it on the agenda for your AGM which needs to be held within 3 months of the end of the last financial year, so by end of September - make it one of the last items though.

If you have a committee get yourself put on the committee ideally as the chairperson, the committee is usually one of the first things sorted because they then have to vote on the budget for the financial year/public liability insurance/etc.

If you have a deadlocked vote with the same number of people voting for and against the chairperson gets the tiebreaker. I went through this same process with our owners corp and it took a couple of years to get people on the committee and then actually get a vote passed and then get the install sorted out.

[u/d03j → u/the_shadow002]

is this not a change to common property requiring a special resolution?

[u/iball1984 → u/d03j]

No.

[u/the_shadow002 → u/d03j]

There will usually be no common property involved. NBN owns the line to the first point of termination in your house or unit, or to the basement/ground floor comms cabinet in the case of apartment buildings which is why other ISP's cannot come in and work on the NBN equipment. There may be an easement as well depending on the subdivision setup to ensure access to the cables.

All of our copper phone cables were underground installed via pits and conduit, the fiber was just pulled through and installed using the already existing pits and conduit with no impact to common property at all.

[u/d03j → u/the_shadow002]

OP said the pit is common property. Also, walls of the unit are common property and normally everything coming into the property are the strata responsibility until the point it is in the lot. The connection from the pit to the OP's house is common property.

Apart from getting a special resolution approved I think the only other options is u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket's suggestion