[AusNOG] Pipe on front page of www.news.com.au right now

[Paul McMahon]

well done pipe!


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft
<mmc at internode.com.au>wrote:

>
> On 26/05/2009, at 2:29 PM, Nathan Brookfield (SAU) wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> MMC
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