[AusNOG] Peering Providers

[Paul Wilkins]

Paul,
Ok, I'm not an expert, but the question seems to turn on sections 87 and 88
of The Telecommunications Act, 1997, which stipulate that a carriage
service is supplied 'to the public', where the public means an end user.
But if the minister chooses, he can declare you a carriage provider,
regardless.

(ianal)

Paul Wilkins

On 24 March 2015 at 23:46, Paul Julian <paul at oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:

> Question to the knowledgeable….
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> Is a business which does only peering between service providers classed as
> a service provider themselves ?
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> In other words if you are only passing data between one entity and
> another, and you don’t provide any services except for the connectivity to
> pass that data would that still classify you as a service provider ?
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> I suppose an example would be a peering company like Megaport (just an
> example), if they are just passing data through from people to other people
> without doing anything with that data or providing any services like email
> of website hosting etc, are they are service provider ?
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> Sorry if it’s a stupid question but I am curious.
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> Regards
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> Paul
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