[AusNOG] ACCC pushes for consumer internet speed test, telcos aren't keen on the idea

[Paul Brooks]

Right -
Lets say the ACCC had ruled to do what everyone here wants, to aggregate all Australia
to two redundant super-POIs in each major capital city, just like Telstra wholesale ADSL.
Every end-user tail circuit, residential and corporate, is migrated to the NBN.

Lets take it a step further - NBN link the PoIs together, so any ISP can hook up to
just a single POI and achieve blanket national coverage. Two or three POIs provides
redundancy against POI failure.

The AVC and CVC charges are higher, as NBNCo now has to pay for all the long-haul
transmission all over the country, and recover that in extra service charges. Probably
not as much as the extra costs of backhaul ISPs currently incur to reach 121 POIs,
since NBN would have ultimate economy of scale carrying every bit of traffic.

Who wins?
Who loses?
Who goes out of business in 5 years? 10 years?


On 13/09/2015 7:59 PM, Matt Perkins wrote:
> I think the whole DOD idea is a bit far fetched and with respect I think the model was put tougher a bit quick to take things into account  like network resilience.  The plane facts here are that to shrink the number of POI's would allow Joe blogs ISP. China telecom or whomever to compete with Telstra. Now Telstra has many mum and dad investors. But worse still it has many super funds investing in it.  For a government to devalue Telstra in such a way is not only political  suicide it would also require them to prop up some people in retirement due to their ailing funds and their reliant on people like Telstra. 
>
> The large number of POI models favours the incumbent carrier that happens to have most of their exchanges co-located. 
>
> Matt.