[AusNOG] Pricing for Going Direct To NBN Co (vs, Aggregator)

[Joseph Goldman]

The feeling would be that with the combined market share it would make 
it more viable, and the nature of it being non-profit would mean it is 
priced only to basically cover its own running costs and no further, 
which would separate from aggregators who would price it to cover 
running costs, cover staff, cover overheads and make a profit. It would 
have competitive advantage over some things such as shared members 
knowledge, rather than expensive staff members or consultants, donated 
time, spread out 'staffing' as you could call on members to do hands on 
at their local POI for the good of the association, etc etc.

It's a big feat though and would still require significant cash flow to 
even start.

On 07/12/15 12:36, Chad Kelly wrote:
> On 12/5/2015 9:44 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>> I had these conversations back in April when I got sick and tired of 
>> the margins the likes of Telstra Wholesale, AAPT etc were making off 
>> us smaller ISP's.
>>
>> I basically went to both upstream and told them smarten up their 
>> pricing or I would split them into their own providers.
>>
>> Discussions we had with NBN was we had to commit to 5 pops with a 
>> role out plan to all POP's as NBN only wants to deal directly with 
>> the big end of town and not all of us little guys.
>>
>> Billing systems had to be accredited by them as well.
>>
>> This is why conversation with a number of smaller guys took place to 
>> setup a not for profit.
>>
>> Look maybe they have changed to goal posts but that was what we were 
>> told then.
> And how exactly would setting up a non profit organisation make the 
> pricing from NBN co any different?
> You still need to make a profit as a non profit organisation, 
> otherwise the entire thing won't survive.
> Its just what you do with those profits that makes it non profit, 
> rather then a commercial organisation.
> Regards Chad.
>
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