[AusNOG] Carrier Licensing Changes - Residential and small business customers

[Paul Julian]

I think they have to realistically not be expecting people to comply in two weeks over Christmas, the other curveball is that at this stage, until further notice from what I read, the period of the declaration is 2 years which means that you may have to operate as two entities for 2 years and then go back to how you were once the NBN is more established and they have successfully removed competition whilst that happens, assuming you want to go back to being one entity then.

I honestly feel this is going to hurt all of the small businesses who have created a niche market of putting their balls on the line and investing in these buildings to give better services to clients which are at the far reaches of ADSL and further, and where nobody else cares about providing better services to these customers, and it's all to stop TPG competing with NBN at the end of the day really, and TPG probably wouldn't touch many of the locations anyway as they wouldn't be viable or within 1KM of their existing network.

Regards
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Wheeler [mailto:ausnog at rossw.net] 
Sent: Monday, 15 December 2014 10:23 AM
To: Paul Julian
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Carrier Licensing Changes - Residential and small business customers


> Hi All, just wondering if anybody who is affected has reviewed the 
> latest carrier licensing declaration released yesterday, I'm 
> interested in people's opinions who this affects, we are directly 
> affected by this new ruling and to be honest I'm not sure how we 
> should read it, will it be good or bad for us, only time and money will tell I suppose.

I know at least one who is in a very awkward position.
As a single-employee company doing both the functions of supply to end users, as well as the installation and ongoing maintenance and operation of a "complying super-fast" network (glass), they are required to (as of 1st january - ie, 2 weeks!) somehow separate the "retail" and "wholesale" parts of their business...

How can they??
Surely there must be a way to apply for and be granted an exemption on the grounds that it is not practical or feasable to comply? (Especially as they've been operating this way for a decade or two perfectly legally)