[AusNOG] NBNco Website

[Shane Short]

And it's been any different for the last 5 years anyway?

Ignoring the big player, everyone just resells Telstra Wholesale anyway, nothing's *really* changing.



On 21/06/2010, at 10:11 AM, Daniel Hooper wrote:

> Yes .. the days of ISP’s are numbered (if the NBN does actually get going), we’ll all soon be nothing but retail internet providers selling internet access & content.
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Karl Kloppenborg
> Sent: Monday, 21 June 2010 10:05 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] NBNco Website
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> Hey Noggers,
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> Hopefully your all having a charming monday morning (those shaky coffee hands grasping to your soul trapped in a mug ;D )
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> So I was reading the NBNco website (http://www.nbnco.com.au) oh and how it does look rather like a template website...
> 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)
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> Does anyone else see it this way?
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> http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition
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> But the thing that has me stumped is that I have never really heard this term before?
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> You go to Mr (average) joe down the street and ask him "Do you know what an ISP is?" 
> He probably will answer it with something along these lines: "yeah mate, they provide internet to me, errm bigpond" 
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> Yet as a network engineer, I have yet to have actually used the term "RSP" (maybe I am just young and blonde?) 
> 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.
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> Your thoughts please.
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> Cheers,
> Karl Kloppenborg.
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