[AusNOG] TPG vs the world

[Shane Short]

That's a little bit of a different market though, most hosting providers 
(small fries excluded) aren't dependent on buying services from other 
hosting providers. In the retail ISP/Smaller Carrier market, you're 
often having to buy services from the people you're often competing 
against, which makes things even more difficult.

Chad Kelly wrote:
> On 5/1/2015 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>> Regarding consolidation in the industry, it's bound to happen,
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> Exactly, its not just ISPs doing this either, the web hosting industry 
> has had a lot of this going on for a while now.
> Melbourne IT have been buying out a lot of companies.
> Its a fantastic growth strategy though particularly in a highly 
> competitive market such as the web hosting and ISP space.
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