[AusNOG] NBN and CVC

[Alan Maher]

Aus. is a slightly different animal to NZ, but we do have a grasp on
reality.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-01/telcos-cry-foul-over-controversial-nbn-charge-for-bandwidth/8762404

On 31/07/2017 3:25 p.m., Mark Delany wrote:
> On 30Jul17, Matthew Moyle-Croft allegedly wrote:
>> I???m fairly certain that billing systems of this scale are pretty doable and not a limiting factor and isn???t a reason to not do this.
> Right.
>
> What I was thinking is that NBN charges each RSP per byte - that's
> billing/polling a couple of 100 RSPs at the NNI which strikes me as
> very tractable.
>
> Most RSPs already do per-service usage tracking, so nothing new there.
>
> My main suggestion is that NBNCo does not apply any limits to the RSP
> - thus taking it out of the equation wrt performance. If the RSP wants
> to limit at the NNI or at the service, that's entirely a matter for
> them and the PR hit they might take as a consequence.
>
> As Bevan rightly says of course, forcing NBNCo to be "profitable" is
> probably the biggest constraint to any real structural change to the
> pricing model.
>
>
> Mark.
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