[AusNOG] Gosford City Council and NBN RSP.

[Sam Silvester]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
wrote:

>
> The argument for multiple ports is to prevent the end-users house being
> captured by a
> single ISP. Each port can be used by a different ISP (or some other
> non-ISP body -
> like, say, a local council) and bypass the first one - but that does not
> imply that an
> application using a different port wouldn't work just as well through the
> first port
> IFF the first ISP was designed or operated right, or had the right
> commercial model.
>

I can't help but feel having a single port doesn't mean end users are
captured by an single ISP - that only really is the case if either the
wholesaler also happens to be a retailer, and therefore likely to
pre-provision a service for convenience or the like.

Realistically, the thing that locks most people into a single ISP and makes
change difficult are lengthy contract terms and bundle deals - and having
more ports available doesn't change that.

Especially with a gradual move to CPE that are managed in some way (HFC,
TR-069 compliant DSL modems etc), it's not much more than a case of "unplug
old CPE, plug in box supplied by new ISP".
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