well done pipe! <div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmc@internode.com.au">mmc@internode.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Grahame Lynch is absolutely kidding himself? AGVC + National Transit to Telstra and other carriers who don't peer is the major killer or am I just totally off the mark here?</font></div>
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<br></div></font></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div></div><div><div>It's not possible to operate an IP network in Australia without paying the "GoF" tax and this effective "cartel" the ACCC created all those years ago for domestic peering I think is something the ACCC/Government will have to look at fairly soon. Otherwise it's going to constrain the growth of content delivery in Australia as the Domestic IP price becomes the "floor" price providers have to ensure they sell above so they don't get arbitraged.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Reach/Singtel/TNZI all quite happily peer with networks of our size offshore (ie. if Internode was US based, then peering on the West Coast of the USA with all three would be fairly assured).</div>
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