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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Hey Noggers,</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully your all having a charming monday morning (those shaky coffee hands grasping to your soul trapped in a mug ;D )</div><div><br></div><div>So I was reading the NBNco website (<a href="http://www.nbnco.com.au">http://www.nbnco.com.au</a>) oh and how it does look rather like a template website...</div><div>After going through some pages I can't help but keep thinking that NBN is demoting us as ISP's and relabelling us as RSP's (Retail service providers)</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone else see it this way?</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#056100" size="1"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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</font></span></i></font></div></span></i></font></div></span></span></i></font></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition">http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition</a><div><br></div><div>But the thing that has me stumped is that I have never really heard this term before?</div><div><br></div><div>You go to Mr (average) joe down the street and ask him "Do you know what an ISP is?" </div><div>He probably will answer it with something along these lines: "yeah mate, they provide internet to me, errm bigpond" </div><div><br></div><div>Yet as a network engineer, I have yet to have actually used the term "RSP" (maybe I am just young and blonde?) </div><div>But I am wondering about this whole Retail Service Provider thing? it makes me feel like we are a clothing shop, it makes me feel that the ISP community to the Government are what regional ISPs are to the big boy ISPs like telstra / optus / Internode etc etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts please.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Karl Kloppenborg.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>