[AusNOG] Carrier Independent Peering Exchange

[Dan Irwin]

Mark Smith wrote:

>TPG do have a commercial incentive to stop their competitors peering
>using their PIPE peering infrastructure, 

First of all, TPG don't have any say, let alone any incentive. Remember,
TPG don't own PIPE, SPTel do. It just happens that SPTel also own TPG,
and TPG's former owner, David Teoh, is in control of SPTel (and
therefore TPG and PIPE).

Next, Why would SPTel want to destroy the value of the PIPE Ixes? SPTel
paid 300 million plus for PIPE. Why would they have any incentive to
destroy the business model Bevan and Steve have successfully built up
over the past decade or so?

While I can understand people's skepticism, the reality is nowhere as
bad as what some people here have suggested.

Cheers,

Dan

(keen observer and former voip guy)

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