<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the list SPAM. We've been chatting in our office about our current commercial dissatisfaction with our NBN aggregation services, but lamenting that our volume is not sufficient (nor likely to be in the short term) to justify a significant investment in NBN POI direct connectivity.</div><div><br></div><div>We think the metric for NBN viability comes around 100-200 active services per POI, give or take - and that the only way that small providers are going to be able to compete commercially (with both speed, congestion and cost) is to continue to tolerate TW/iSeek/AAPTs aggregation or to "combine forces" to create an NBN buying group with a more direct/transparent process of engaging with NBN, determining speed and congestion and managing costs.</div><div><br></div><div>Lots of complicated technical and commercial details to work out - but would there be potentially some interest in this?</div><div><br></div><div>The key goals would be</div><div><ul><li>essentially transparent access to NBN's B2B interface</li><li>essentially transparent access to port usage graphs and backhaul information</li><li>some sort of stable commercial model that protects other parties in the buying group from an unexpected events to another party. For example, a large enough group of similarly equal sized players so that the failure of a single party does not provide an undue burden to the remaining businesses - or something.<br></li></ul></div><div>This is a "similar" question to the triple-play services question that was flowing through the list last week. For the record, we got a number of responses but we are still only sitting at a few thousand potential services, which isn't enough to warrant this yet. We're talking about a setting up a closed website for managing the "potential" service numbers for this sort of thing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Andrew<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Andrew Yager, Managing Director</b> <i>(BCompSc, JNCIS-SP, MACS (Snr) CP)</i><br></div><div dir="ltr">Real World Technology Solutions - IT People you can trust</div><div dir="ltr">Voice | Data | IT Procurement | Managed IT</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://rwts.com.au" target="_blank">rwts.com.au</a> | 1300 798 718</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="http://www.rwts.com.au/email-signature-logo.jpg"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Real World is a Dell Premier Partner</i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed and its content is not intended for use by any other persons. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. We are not liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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